When Dr. Bodo Beck first saw the three children of a family who had fled Syria sitting in his consultation room at University Hospital Cologne, the human geneticist was surprised. His genetic analysis diagnosed Bartter syndrome ...
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Ever since 19th-century neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal discovered the brain's beautifully complex neurons—what he referred to as "the mysterious butterflies of the soul"—neuroscientists have sought to characterize ...
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Astrocytes are a type of glial cell in the central nervous system that clear excess neurotransmitters, promote the formation of synapses (i.e., connections between neurons), and perform other functions. The development of ...
Brain tissue is one of the most intricate tissue specimens that scientists have arguably ever dealt with. Packed with an immeasurable amount of information, the human brain is the most sophisticated computational device with ...
Jul 10, 2023
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Researchers from GeneDx have published a paper titled "Multiscale analysis of pangenomes enables improved representation of genomic diversity for repetitive and clinically relevant genes" in Nature Methods. The work details ...
Jun 26, 2023
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Cells interact with their surrounding environment by secreting proteins which act as messengers or signals for communicating with other cells. Capturing these elusive and minute secreted proteins, particularly those from ...
Jun 6, 2023
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Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a method involving artificial intelligence to visualize and track changes in the strength of synapses—the connection points through which nerve cells in the brain communicate—in ...
Jun 5, 2023
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Initiated in 2015 and led by the Allen Institute for Brain Science, BigNeuron is an international initiative that brings together computer scientists and neuroscientists from a dozen institutions. Its goal is to develop a ...
May 24, 2023
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Our brains are made of billions of neurons, which are connected forming complex networks. They communicate between themselves by sending electrical signals, known as action potentials, and chemical signals, known as neurotransmitters, ...
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A research team at China's Peking University has made a new breakthrough in multiphoton microscopy by developing a miniature three-photon microscope that has successfully captured deep-brain images of freely moving mice.
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