A new study reported that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, can infect dopamine neurons in the brain and trigger senescence—when a cell loses the ability to grow and divide. The researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, ...
Jan 17, 2024
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One of the key decisions faced by people living with HIV, and by their health-care providers, is when to start treatment.
Sep 26, 2011
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In a detailed clinical study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found differences in the brains and immune systems of people with post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (PI-ME/CFS). ...
Feb 21, 2024
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The heartbeat is the result of rhythmic contractions of the heart muscle, which are in turn regulated by electrical signals called action potentials. Action potentials result from the controlled flow of ions into heart muscle ...
Sep 9, 2011
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Since their discovery over 100 years ago, neurons called tufted cells, in the brain's olfactory bulb, have been difficult to study. The close proximity between tufted cells and other neurons called mitral cells has restricted ...
Sep 29, 2022
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The dentate gyrus is part of the hippocampus, an area of the brain that plays a critical role in memory formation, and contains neural stem cells that develop into other cell types, such as granule cells, mossy cells, and ...
Sep 24, 2020
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When University of Virginia biomedical engineering professor John Hossack and colleagues in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Medicine consider bubbles, they think of something much more useful ...
Nov 6, 2014
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A new University of British Columbia study identifies an important molecular change that occurs in the brain when we learn and remember.
Feb 24, 2014
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The active ingredient in a traditional Chinese herbal remedy might help treat deadly brain tumors, according to a new study by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer ...
Jul 12, 2011
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A drug now prescribed for cardiovascular problems could become a new tool in physicians' arsenals to attack certain types of leukemia that so far have evaded effective treatments, researchers say.
Sep 12, 2011
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