Medical research
Yes, the COVID vaccine came out super-quickly—but here's why it's safe
Remember when the pandemic started and some people were really into baking bread?
May 20, 2021
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Neuroscience
A brain signature that predicts vulnerability to addiction
A team of neurobiologists at the Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université) has just shown that within a population of rats it can predict which will become cocaine addicts.
Mar 31, 2021
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Neuroscience
Interaction between auditory and reward brain circuits underpins musical pleasure
Communication between the brain's auditory and reward circuits is the reason why humans find music rewarding, according to new research published in JNeurosci.
Mar 29, 2021
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Diabetes
Circadian clock gene Rev-erb linked to dawn phenomenon in type 2 diabetes
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Shandong University in China and other institutions may have found an explanation for dawn phenomenon, an abnormal increase of blood sugar only in the morning, observed in many patients ...
Mar 25, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
A clue to how some fast-growing tumors hide in plain sight
The glow of a panther's eyes in the darkness. The zig-zagging of a shark's dorsal fin above the water.
Mar 25, 2021
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Genetics
Scientists identify genetic pathway that suppresses Lou Gehrig's Disease
Professor Chunghun Lim and his research team in the Department of Biological Sciences unveiled a neuroprotective pathway that suppresses Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS).
Mar 19, 2021
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Genetics
Epigenetic mechanism contributing to lifelong stress susceptibility discovered
An epigenetic modification that occurs in a major cell type in the brain's reward circuitry controls how stress early in life increases susceptibility to additional stress in adulthood, researchers at the Icahn School of ...
Mar 15, 2021
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Neuroscience
Brain activity foreshadows changes in stock prices
Forecasting changes in stock prices may be possible with the help of brain activity in regions associated with how people feel before making investment choices. Scientists could accurately forecast market price changes based ...
Mar 8, 2021
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HIV & AIDS
Immune-compromised people with HIV, APOE4 gene may have a compounded risk for Alzheimer's
People living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who have a history of severe immunosuppression and at least one copy of the Alzheimer's disease-related gene variant APOE4, might see a compounded adverse effect on ...
Feb 22, 2021
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HIV & AIDS
A new piece of the HIV infection puzzle explored
Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg and at the Zentrum für Infektiologie at Heidelberg University Hospital have succeeded for the first time in imaging HIV during transport into the nucleus of an infected cell. The electron tomographic ...
Feb 18, 2021
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