The nervous and immune systems have long been thought to be separate entities in the body, but new research has uncovered a direct cellular interaction between the two. Scientists from Harvard Medical School, the Broad Institute ...
Dec 17, 2020
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When you touch a hot stove, your hand reflexively pulls away; if you miss a rung on a ladder, you instinctively catch yourself. Both motions take a fraction of a second and require no forethought. Now, researchers at the ...
Dec 10, 2020
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A study by scientists at the University of Sussex is challenging the common understanding of how mammalian brains work.
Nov 12, 2020
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A key step in the immune system's response to allergens has been uncovered by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). They have shown that a neuropeptide called Substance P is released by certain neurons in the ...
Oct 29, 2020
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Fruit flies may be able to teach researchers a thing or two about artificial intelligence.
Oct 15, 2020
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A team co-led by scientists at Scripps Research has found that the main sensor protein enabling our sense of touch also underlies the feeling of having a full bladder and makes normal bladder function possible.
Oct 14, 2020
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Olfactory sensory neurons are nasal neurons that make use of hundreds of different types of odorant receptors to analyze odorous chemicals in our external world and send that information to our brain. These neurons have the ...
Oct 7, 2020
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In a study published in Neuron, the researchers from Dr. Xu Xiaohong's Lab at the Institute of Neuroscience, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, described ...
Sep 22, 2020
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Scientists at EPFL, ETHZ and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital have developed an implantable technology that enabled the discovery of an interaction between sensory neurons and immune cells.
Sep 21, 2020
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Take a sniff of a freshly poured glass of wine, and the prevailing scientific thinking would suggest that the harmony of fragrances involves sensory receptors in the nose simply adding up the individual odors they encounter. ...
Sep 21, 2020
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