Neuroscience
To appreciate music, the human brain listens and learns to predict
Music has been central to human cultures for tens of thousands of years, but how our brains perceive it has long been shrouded in mystery.
Feb 19, 2024
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News tagged with human culture
Medical research
Encapsulated stem cells accelerate wound healing
A team of Cornell scientists has shown that stem cells confined inside tiny capsules secrete substances that help heal simulated wounds in cell cultures, opening up new ways of delivering these substances to locations in ...
Apr 14, 2015
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Genetics
Decoding COVID-19: What can genetics reveal about the coronavirus pandemic?
Why do some people fall ill from SARS-CoV-2 while others infected with the virus experience no symptoms?
Jun 12, 2020
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Medical research
3D 'organ on a chip' could accelerate search for new disease treatments
Researchers have developed a three-dimensional 'organ on a chip' which enables real-time continuous monitoring of cells, and could be used to develop new treatments for disease while reducing the number of animals used in ...
Oct 26, 2018
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Medical research
A new way of finding compounds that prevent aging
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new method for identifying compounds that prevent aging. The method is based on a new way of determining age in cultured human cells and is reported in a study ...
Apr 10, 2019
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Genetics
Striking level of genomic novelty found in Hadza hunter-gatherer microbiome
A genomic study led by researchers at Stanford University, California, has performed ultra-deep metagenomic sequencing on 351 fecal samples from the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. In their paper, "Ultra-deep sequencing ...
Genetics
Immune system of modern Papuans shaped by DNA from ancient Denisovans
Modern Papuans' immune system likely evolved with a little help from the Denisovans, a mysterious human ancestor who interbred with ancient humans, according to a new study led by Irene Gallego Romero of the University of ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How knowledge about different cultures is shaking the foundations of psychology
The academic discipline of psychology was developed largely in North America and Europe. Some would argue it's been remarkably successful in understanding what drives human behaviour and mental processes, which have long ...
Mar 9, 2018
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Medications
Scientists say eye-disease drug may also help fight COVID
An interdisciplinary research team led by UCLA found that a drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration for eye disease, verteporfin, stopped the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Their ...
Nov 8, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Scientists identify critical window for treatment of Alzheimer's disease
Neuroscientists at the University of Southampton have made a significant development in understanding how Alzheimer's disease spreads through the brain, discovering a significant period of time where medical intervention ...
Oct 29, 2019
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