It is 7 am, the alarm clock rings—you open your eyes, swing your legs out of bed, give a talk at work, play a tennis match in the evening. Billions of nerve cells that make up the gray matter in our brain allow us to perform ...
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A team of UCF College of Medicine researchers has created a digital topographical map of the cardiac sympathetic neural network, the region that controls the body's heart rate and its "fight-or-flight" response. They hope ...
Apr 17, 2023
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Using a specialized MRI sensor, MIT researchers have shown that they can detect light deep within tissues such as the brain.
Dec 22, 2022
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JoAnn Buchanan, Ph.D., was deep into the data. One click at a time, she scanned through the branching, twisting 3D shapes of mouse brain cells on her computer screen. Then Buchanan, a scientist at the Allen Institute, saw ...
Nov 28, 2022
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How does the brain produce behavior? Studying the brain during behavior is most informative when the animal is free to interact with its environment in any way it chooses. This requires small head-mounted devices that provide ...
Nov 28, 2022
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The tissues of every living organism develop from a few cells that divide and move until they reach their final destination and position. The process of how a certain tissue or organ is formed is called morphogenesis, and ...
Oct 25, 2022
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a detection method that could revolutionize cancer treatment by showing how cancers metastasize and what stage they are.
Aug 12, 2022
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A team of researchers at Institut Pasteur reports evidence that suggests the SARS-CoV-2 virus is able to enter the brain by using nose cells to make nanotube tunnels. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, ...
In a recent interview, "Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke spoke about being able to live "completely normally" after two aneurysms—one in 2011 and one in 2013—that caused brain injury. She went on to have two brain ...
Jul 20, 2022
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What happens below the cellular level when the heart contracts and relaxes has long been unexplored. Thanks to new ultra-high-resolution electron microscopy techniques, scientists can now watch the heart beating at almost ...
Apr 11, 2022
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