Is the brain of animals and humans naturally wired to recognize faces? Is there an innate biological mechanism that explains this ability? Questions like these have been fueling a debate that involves, on the opposite side, ...
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A study led by UCLA Health has begun to unravel one of the fundamental mysteries in neuroscience—how the human brain encodes and makes sense of the flow of time and experiences.
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The transfer of knowledge from animal models to humans is essential for unraveling disease mechanisms and developing precise therapeutic strategies. The high-resolution method of single-cell RNA sequencing makes it possible ...
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Certain developmental signals shape not only the human embryo but also play a significant role in maintaining our genetic blueprints. They prevent alterations in the genome, known as mosaicism.
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People with Down syndrome face a higher risk of developing leukemia. Now researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Stanford University explain why, by identifying specific changes in blood cells of people with Down ...
Sep 25, 2024
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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, in collaboration with Revolution Medicines, have tested a combination of treatments in mice with lung cancer and shown that these allow immunotherapies to target non-responsive ...
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Sending nursing staff home who are mildly ill with COVID-19 could lead to unnecessary patient hospitalizations, deaths, and costs, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
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Researchers at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine recently made an important advance in neurodegenerative disease research and modeling. ...
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A new study details how a nasal spray formulated by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital may work to protect against viral and bacterial respiratory infections. Based on their preclinical studies, the researchers ...
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Whether we are predisposed to particular diseases depends to a large extent on the countless variants in our genome. However, particularly in the case of genetic variants that only rarely occur in the population, the influence ...
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