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The image shows the taste buds of a mouse with specific types of cells highlighted. The caption best describes the image.

Featured Neuroscience

·March 6, 2013·4 min read

How the Body’s Energy Molecule Transmits Three Types of Taste to the Brain

Researchers discovered the CALHM1 channel protein releases ATP to make a neural taste connection.

The image shows MRI brain scans of patients with Pontocerebellar hypoplasia.

Featured Genetics

·August 1, 2013·4 min read

Potential Nutritional Therapy for Childhood Neurodegenerative Disease

Researchers have discovered the gene mutation responsible for pontocerebellar hypoplasia. Pontocerebellar hypoplasia is an incurable neurodegenerative disease which affects children.

This MRI scan shows the location of the substantia nigra in the brain.

Featured Neurology

·August 16, 2013·4 min read

Effects of Parkinson’s Disease Mutation Reversed in Cells

Researchers discover a chemical in an anti-wrinkle cream could help prevent the death of nerve cells damaged by mutations, which cause an inherited form of Parkinson's disease.

Diagram illustrating the influence of dark-light rhythms on circadian rhythms and related physiology and behavior.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 19, 2013·5 min read

Circadian Clock is Key to Firing Up Cell’s Furnace

Researchers have identified how the circadian clock helps prime mitochondria to correctly use stored energy when we are not eating.

This is a computer generated model of amyloid beta.

Featured Neuroscience

·March 4, 2014·4 min read

New Probes Quantify Folded and Misfolded Protein Levels in Cells

A new probe which allows researchers to quantify folded and misfolded protein levels in a cell could help pave the way for drug treatments for misfolding diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

The image is a schematic representation of the dynein microtubule.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·January 13, 2015·3 min read

Revealing the Inner Workings of a Molecular Motor

Researchers take steps to better understand how dynein helps transport cellular cargo into the cell bodies of neurons.

This image shows the Hsp90 chaperone cycle.

Brain Cancer Featured Genetics

·August 7, 2015·3 min read

Protein That Kills Cells in Neurodegenerative Diseases Implicated in Cancer Cell Metabolism

The protein Hsp90 may assist cancer cells to grow, a new study reports.

Image shows the chemical structure of acetylcholine.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 18, 2015·4 min read

Coordinating Traffic Down the Neural Highway

Findings could open new avenues for designing drugs to treat ataxia, researchers report.

Inner ear of a rat.

Featured Neurology

·November 9, 2015·4 min read

Nerve Cells Warn Brain of Damage to the Inner Ear

According to a new study, some inner ear nerve cells can signal tissue damage to the brain.

Image shows a cross section of the sensory epithelium of the developing inner ear in a mouse.

Featured Genetics Neurology

·November 27, 2015·6 min read

How Cells in the Developing Ear Practice Hearing

Researchers have discovered a molecular chain of events that enable cells in the inner ear to practice processing sounds during development.

Image shows a labelled diagram of mitochondria.

Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles

·February 4, 2016·4 min read

Cell Aging Triggered by Mitochondria

A new study reports mitochondira are major triggers of cell aging.

Photo of a dragonfly head.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 4, 2016·5 min read

Think Small: Diminishing Returns in Neuroscience

Researchers are investigating what makes a brain efficient and how that affects insect behavior.

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