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New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Medical Center investigators, with co-authors across additional US centers, report greater cognitive worsening at 78 weeks with valacyclovir than with placebo among ...
Why do some children develop a brain that is too small (microcephaly)? An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover Medical School (MHH), and the ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Down syndrome is caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. Because of genes present on this chromosome that are known to contribute to Alzheimer's disease, patients with Down syndrome often develop the disease, sometimes ...
Dec 5, 2025
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a highly debilitating neurodegenerative disease characterized by the progressive loss of memory and decline of mental functions. Earlier research has uncovered some of the neural and biological ...
Cells have an internal skeleton that maintains their structure and also drives their movement. Known as the cytoskeleton, this scaffold is composed of a network of dynamic filaments made of a protein called actin.
Nov 14, 2025
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Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders, affecting millions of people worldwide. Published in the Journal of Neuroscience, new research from the Okinawa Institute of Science ...
Nov 5, 2025
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Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply—and can contribute to infertility, pregnancy loss, and genetic disorders. Yet why this sudden rise happens remains unknown.
Nov 3, 2025
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A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a key mechanism underlying the development of motor neuron diseases, offering new insights into potential treatment options, according to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Oct 16, 2025
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Researchers at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim, together with international partners, have developed patient-derived brain organoids for the first time in order to better understand the rare genetic ...
Oct 15, 2025
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Cancer cells are subjected to high mechanical pressure that leads to a rupture of the nuclear envelope when migrating through narrow tissue structures, as in the case of metastasis. DNA would normally leak out in the process, ...
Sep 29, 2025
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