Neuroscience
Uncovering the neural basis for hypothetical thinking in rats
Coffee or tea? Sweater or coat? These decisions seem simple, but they require you to consider how the future might play out.
Jan 31, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
New discovery would allow researchers to fine-tune CAR-T activity
A discovery by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers could allow scientists to fine-tune genetically engineered immune cells to heighten their killing power against tumors or to decrease ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Medical research
Unanticipated response to estrogen at the single cell level
A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that not only do individual mammalian cells in a population fail to respond synchronously to estrogen stimulation, neither do individual gene copies, known as ...
Jan 27, 2020
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Health
The serious consequence of exercising too much, too fast
Every 365.25 days, when the Earth completes a full orbit around the Sun, we humans have the opportunity to hit the reset button and become fitter, finer versions of ourselves. As usual for January, social media is humming ...
Jan 27, 2020
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Neuroscience
Team develops first of a kind in-vitro 3-D neural tissue model
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have successfully used stem cells to engineer living biohybrid nerve tissue to develop 3-D models of neural networks with the hopes of gaining a better understanding ...
Dec 11, 2019
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Neuroscience
Purkinje cell dendrites plasticity and the basis for cerebellar learning
In mere milliseconds trillions of chemical reactions ignite signals that travel across the billions of neurons in our brain. As we go through our daily lives and absorb new knowledge these neurons begin to modify themselves ...
Dec 6, 2019
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Immunology
Insights into a versatile molecular death switch
The enzyme caspase-8 induces a molecular cell death programme called pyroptosis without involving its enzymatic activity, a new study by Hamid Kashkar published in Nature shows. In order to safeguard healthy and functioning ...
Nov 26, 2019
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Cardiology
Study helps explain why exercise guards against heart disease
Regular exercise protects the cardiovascular system by reducing risk factors such as cholesterol and blood pressure. "But we believe there are certain risk factors for cardiovascular disease that are not fully understood," ...
Nov 7, 2019
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Medical research
Stressing cancer with spice
A new study by scientists in Japan and Indonesia reports how an experimental drug agent stops cancer cells from growing. A little over a decade ago, Indonesian scientists first reported pentagamavumon-1 (PGV-1), an analogue ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Medical research
First-ever US clinical trial of engineered iPSC-derived cell therapy for blood cancer
A new cancer clinical trial has opened at the M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center that leverages the groundbreaking research on stem cells and natural killer (NK) cells done at the Masonic Cancer Center ...
Oct 21, 2019
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