Oncology & Cancer
Research: Cancer gene inhibition shows step toward beating neuroblastomas
Neuroblastoma is a devastating solid tumor of childhood and emerges in the sympathetic nervous system while many kids who develop it are still toddlers.
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Neuroscience
Visual feedback enhances activation of muscle movement in response to bodily sensation
Visual feedback is just as important as a sense of body position when it comes to the involuntary reflexes that activate muscle movement, says a new study in the open-access journal eLife.
Mar 31, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The global supply chain is not immune to COVID-19
Not all the side effects of COVID-19 are biological. But that doesn't mean they won't affect your health anyway.
Mar 17, 2020
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Neuroscience
Pedal to the metal: Speeding up treatments for ALS
A therapeutic intervention for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, could be on the horizon thanks to unexpected findings by University of Arizona researchers.
Feb 11, 2020
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Immunology
Atom bomb tests used to age the immune system
The pulse of environmental carbon-14 released by atom bomb tests in the early years of the Cold War has allowed researchers to understand how humans can still mount an immune response to diverse pathogens well into their ...
Oct 30, 2019
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Neuroscience
Why, sometimes, we don't see what we actually saw
Georgetown University neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a "crash in visual processing"—a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware of stimuli ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Neuroscience
Possible explanation of how an epileptic seizure spreads through the brain
In some forms of epilepsy, the function of certain "brake cells" in the brain is presumed to be disrupted. This may be one of the reasons why the electrical malfunction is able to spread from the point of origin across large ...
Oct 1, 2019
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Neuroscience
Going the distance: Brain cells for 3-D vision discovered
In stunning images captured under the microscope for the first time, the neurons were found in praying mantises. The work is published in Nature Communications today.
Jun 28, 2019
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Medical research
Bronchi-on-a-chip technology reveals why it is difficult for asthma patients to find relief
The bronchial airways, a network of tubes that delivers air to the lungs, are enwrapped by strings of muscle called the airway smooth muscle. Nobody knows what physiological function these muscles serve, but the general consensus ...
Mar 14, 2019
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Medical research
New discoveries in circadian rhythms provide insight into cancer treatment
In a recent paper in Science Signaling, associate professor of cell and microbiology Carla Finkielstein, of the Department of Biological Sciences, and her collaborators identified an alternative mechanism to control circadian ...
Feb 4, 2019
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