Dendritic cells can be used to predict the course of cancer: the more of them there are in a tumor, the better the prospects for the patient. The cells of the immune system circulate primarily in the blood and migrate into ...
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People express their emotions through different channels: the face, the voice, and the body. Yet, research on emotion perception still largely focuses on recognizing emotions in the face. An interdisciplinary research team ...
Jun 13, 2023
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Dreams have been considered a hallmark of human sleep for a long time. Latest findings, however, suggest that when pigeons sleep, they might experience visions of flight. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum and at the Max ...
Jun 5, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease, an irreversible form of dementia, is considered the world's most common neurodegenerative disease. The prime risk factor for Alzheimer's is age, although it remains unclear why. It is known that the insulating ...
Jun 2, 2023
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The protein FKBP51 is considered a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. However, for the first time, new research results have shown positive effects. Instead of making people anxious or impairing their ability to think, ...
Jun 2, 2023
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An orchestra of complex neuronal networks performs a symphonic masterpiece called vision—an exciting field for neurobiologists like Alexander Borst, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence. In his ...
May 31, 2023
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It is 7 am, the alarm clock rings—you open your eyes, swing your legs out of bed, give a talk at work, play a tennis match in the evening. Billions of nerve cells that make up the gray matter in our brain allow us to perform ...
May 25, 2023
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Knowing when it's time for a meal—and when to stop eating again—is important to survive and to stay healthy, for humans and animals alike. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence have investigated ...
May 24, 2023
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Dying is often associated with extensive health and elderly care. A recent study by Marcus Ebeling from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and colleagues in Sweden came to this conclusion through a new way ...
May 5, 2023
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We don't always recognize irony right away. An interdisciplinary research team at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main found that irony is primarily signaled by moving stress within a sentence. ...
Apr 24, 2023
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