When foreign antigens trigger an immune response, T cells respond by proliferating and differentiating into two groups—effector and memory cells. Epigenetic and transcriptional pathways mediate this response, but the cells ...
Feb 28, 2024
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People with aphantasia lack visual imagination. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) investigated how the lack of mental imagery ...
Feb 27, 2024
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The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Heather Bouchard and Doug Schultz are speaking of airports and blizzards, missed flights and reroutes. Surprising subjects, maybe, for a couple of researchers who study not the logistics ...
Feb 27, 2024
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Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have found that the Snhg11 gene is critical for the function and formation of neurons in the hippocampus. Experiments with mice and human tissues revealed that the gene ...
Feb 26, 2024
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Often a posture assigned to teenagers and disaffected youth, slouching is traditionally considered to be a "bad" posture—with some claiming it will damage your spine and cause pain.
Feb 26, 2024
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As the years add up, it's common to notice slight changes in our ability to remember and think. Older people who have more marked changes than their peers can be diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Currently, ...
Feb 26, 2024
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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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Researchers have known for some time that sleep consolidates our memories of facts and episodic events. However, the research to date has concentrated mainly on simple associations—that is to say, connections between elements, ...
Feb 21, 2024
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The human brain has the extraordinary ability to rapidly discern a stranger from someone familiar, even as it can simultaneously remember details about someone across decades of encounters. Now, in mouse studies, scientists ...
Feb 20, 2024
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A new study published in the British Journal of Psychology found that regular gamers performed better on tasks measuring cognitive functions such as attention and memory.
Feb 20, 2024
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