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Unveiling the Hidden Cellular Logistics of Memory Storage in Neurons

November 26, 2021
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Ann Arbor, MI — Exploring the mechanisms involved in sleep-dependent memory storage, a team of University of Michigan (U-M) cellular biologists found that RNAs associated with an understudied cell...

Targeted Drug Combination Shows Unprecedented Activity in Some Highly Aggressive Brain Tumours

November 26, 2021
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Boston, MA — A combination of two targeted cancer drugs showed unprecedented, “clinically meaningful” activity in patients with highly malignant brain tumours that carried a rare genetic mutation,...

Researchers Discover a New Mechanism Involved in Early Melanoma Metastasis

November 25, 2021
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Madrid, Spain — “We must not only look inside the tumour but also outside of it,” says Héctor Peinado, a researcher at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). How tumours manipulate their...

Microbes Can Provide Sustainable Hydrocarbons for the Petrochemical Industry, Says Study

November 24, 2021
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Berkeley, CA — If the petrochemical industry is ever to wean itself off oil and gas, it has to find sustainably-sourced chemicals that slip effortlessly into existing processes for making products...

Study Looks at Brain Flow, and How People Achieve It

November 24, 2021
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Davis, CA — You are playing such an intense video game and are focused so intently on getting to the next level that you don’t know what is going on around you. You have no sense of time passing. You...

Research Sheds New Light on Effects of Dietary Restriction

November 24, 2021
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Bar Harbor, Maine – In new research, Dr. Aric N. Rogers, who studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms of ageing at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has discovered that muscle...

Neurobiologists Reveal How Value Decisions Are Coded Into Our Brains

November 24, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — In 2019 University of California San Diego researchers discovered the area of the brain where “value decisions” are made. An area within the cerebrum known as the retrosplenial cortex...

With Antibiotic Resistance, ‘We Are Running Out of Options’

November 24, 2021
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Arlington, TX — Experts predict that without intervention, the problem of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections could be catastrophic by 2050, killing nearly 10 million people each year. To seek...

Study Suggests Living Walls Can Reduce Heat Lost From Buildings by Over 30%

November 24, 2021
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Plymouth, UK — Retrofitting an existing masonry cavity walled building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure by more than 30%, according to new research. The...

Getting Quantum Dots to Stop Blinking

November 23, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — Quantum dots, discovered in the 1990s, have a wide range of applications and are perhaps best known for producing vivid colours in some high-end televisions. But for some potential...

Search for Safer Pain Relief Advances With New Compounds

November 23, 2021
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Jupiter, FL — Scientists at Scripps Research in Florida have created a collection of new pain-relieving compounds that, like morphine and other drugs, provide relief via activation of opioid receptors,...

Deep Learning Reveals How Proteins Interact

November 23, 2021
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Seattle, WA — Scientist are now combining recent advances in evolutionary analysis and deep learning to build three-dimensional models of how most proteins in eukaryotes interact. (Eukaryotes are organisms...

Study Finds Remote Ocean Wilderness Areas Are “Living Time Machines,” Teeming With Large Fish

November 23, 2021
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New York, NY — A new, widespread study of the global state of marine coral reef wilderness by WCS, NGS, and university collaborators found that remote ocean wilderness areas are sustaining fish populations...

Study Reveals Drinking Coffee Could Lower the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

November 23, 2021
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Perth, Australia — Good news for those of us who can’t face the day without their morning flat white: a long-term study has revealed drinking higher amounts of coffee may make you less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. The...

New Method Gives Rapid, Objective Insight Into How Cells Are Changed by Disease

November 23, 2021
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Augusta, GA — A new “image analysis pipeline” is giving scientists rapid new insight into how disease or injury have changed the body, down to the individual cell. It’s called TDAExplore, which...

Autism Changes Brain’s White Matter Over Time, Study Finds

November 23, 2021
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Chicago, IL — Researchers at Yale University analyzing specialized MRI exams found significant changes in the microstructure of the brain’s white matter in adolescents and young adults with autism...

Neuroscientists Explore Mysterious ‘Events’ in the Brain That Open New Avenues for Understanding Brain Injuries and Disorders

November 17, 2021
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Bloomington, IN — Using a new model of brain activity, Indiana University computational neuroscientists Maria Pope, Richard Betzel and Olaf Sporns are exploring striking bursts of activity in the human...

The Prostate Cancer Cell That Got Away

November 17, 2021
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Pavel Osten and Professor Lloyd Trotman have developed a new way to study the life history of prostate cancer in mice....

Microtissue System Allows Study of Deadly Lung Disease

November 17, 2021
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Washington, DC — Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a deadly and rapidly progressing disease with no cure. The disease involves abnormal interactions between lung cells, including fibroblasts,...

Study Shows Immune Cells Against COVID-19 Stay High in Number Six Months After Vaccination

November 16, 2021
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Baltimore, MD — A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers provides evidence that CD4+ T lymphocytes — immune system cells also known as helper T cells — produced by people who received either...

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