Neuroscience

How the brain wakes us from daydreams

When we daydream, we must be able to snap back to attention at a moment's notice. Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital uncovered how our brains can do things like react to a question when we're daydreaming: firing activity ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

T-cells: The superheroes in the battle against omicron

Omicron is spreading rapidly throughout the world, with experts claiming that 40% of the global population will be infected within the next two months. This sounds quite startling, but we still don't really know whether omicron ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

XBB.1.5, the most transmissible Covid subvariant yet

The Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, the most transmissible COVID-19 subvariant so far, is spreading quickly across the United States and was predicted on Friday to become Europe's dominant strain in a matter of weeks.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Promising developments in pursuit to design pan-coronavirus vaccine

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that a specific area of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is a promising target for a pan-coronavirus vaccine that could offer some protection against new virus variants, common ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Hearing loss announced by protein boom in blood

Blood levels of a special protein found only in the inner ear spike after exposure to loud noise, UConn Health researchers report. The findings point the way to blood tests that could warn people at risk of hearing loss before ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

CryoEM unlocks understanding of COVID-19 evolution

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified structural changes in COVID-19 variants which provide clues to how the virus evolved to have greater levels of infectivity.

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