Schizophrenia may be related to neurodevelopmental changes, including brain's inability to generate an appropriate vascular system, according to new study resulted from a partnership between the D"Or Institute for Research ...
Feb 23, 2018
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The dentate gyrus is part of the hippocampus, an area of the brain that plays a critical role in memory formation, and contains neural stem cells that develop into other cell types, such as granule cells, mossy cells, and ...
Sep 24, 2020
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esearchers from Hokkaido University in Japan together with an international team of scientists implanted specialized embryonic stem cells into the severed spinal cords of rats. The stem cells, called neural progenitor cells, ...
Apr 11, 2016
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A study published today in Science shows that the Zika virus hijacks a human protein called Musashi-1 (MSI1) to allow it to replicate in, and kill, neural stem cells. Almost all MSI1 protein in the developing embryo is produced ...
Jun 1, 2017
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In Down syndrome, the third copy of chromosome 21 causes a reorganization of the 3D configuration of the entire genome in a key cell type of the developing brain, a new study shows. The resulting disruption of gene transcription ...
Jan 6, 2022
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Researchers have discovered how a molecule can help prevent certain types of brain tumors by recognizing and 'disarming' harmful proteins that cause them.
Sep 4, 2018
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In a new study published in Cell Stem Cell, a team led by USC Stem Cell scientist Michael Bonaguidi, Ph.D., demonstrates that neural stem cells—the stem cells of the nervous system—age rapidly.
Apr 12, 2021
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Johns Hopkins researchers have begun to connect the dots between a schizophrenia-linked genetic variation and its effect on the developing brain. As they report July 3 in the journal Cell Stem Cell, their experiments show ...
Jul 3, 2014
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CHARGE syndrome is a severe developmental disorder affecting multiple organs. It affects 1 in 8500 newborns worldwide. The majority of patients carry a mutation in a gene called CHD7. How this single mutation leads to the ...
Jul 5, 2013
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Research led by scientists at UC San Francisco and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has used brain "organoids"—tiny 3-D models of human organs that scientists grow in a dish to study disease—to identify ...
Feb 13, 2017
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