Archive: 05/02/2018
Study evaluates community-based health efforts
A new study from researchers at Vanderbilt and Harvard universities, published this week in the journal Health Affairs, uses federal health survey data to evaluate community-based efforts to address smoking, obesity and other ...
Feb 5, 2018
Mechanical forces may underlie brain's development and some diseases
Judging by the few items on her desk – some photographs of brain tissue taken through a microscope, a plastic model of the brain, a plush toy neuron – Ellen Kuhl is by all appearances a neuroscientist, and her current ...
Feb 5, 2018
At the molecular level, man and monkey experience surprisingly similar changes during brain development
A Skoltech-led team of scientists has peered into the brains of humans, macaques and chimpanzees to discover surprising similarities. In particular, they focused on alternative splicing during various stages of brain development ...
Feb 5, 2018