A study in mice suggests how chromosome inactivation may protect girls from a type of autism disorder inherited from their father's X chromosome.
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Nerve cells (neurons) are among the most complex cell types in our body. They achieve this complexity during development by extending ramified branches called dendrites and axons and establishing thousands of synapses to ...
Apr 5, 2024
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Even though neurodegenerative diseases often strike in middle age or later, patients could have structural differences in their brains that arise before birth.
Aug 22, 2023
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A team from the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan has uncovered new information about how microglia, the resident immune cells in the brain, colonize the brain during the embryonic stage of development. ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Some areas of the adult brain contain quiescent, or dormant, neural stem cells that can potentially be reactivated to form new neurons. However, the transition from quiescence to proliferation is still poorly understood. ...
Mar 1, 2023
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An aggressive type of pediatric brain tumor, medulloblastoma, exists in a pre-malignant form at birth after initially developing during the first or second trimester of pregnancy, according to a new international study. As ...
Sep 21, 2022
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New research published today by the University of Southampton shows new insight in how our brain develops, that can pave the way for treating neurological disorders.
Aug 16, 2022
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What gets into the brain and what doesn't is strictly regulated. Researchers at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Freiburg have now studied phagocytes that coat the blood vessels in the brain and reinforce the ...
Apr 22, 2022
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The number of specific genes unique to humans is relatively small, whereas the number of genes conserved and expressed in the cerebral cortex in different mammalian species during embryonic development is much larger. A fundamental ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be used to generate brain organoids containing an eye structure called the optic cup, according to a study published August 17 in the journal Cell Stem Cell. The organoids ...
Aug 17, 2021
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