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·March 1, 2011·2 min read

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Used to Create Variety of Motor Neurons in Lab

Researchers created a wide variety of motor neurons using human embryonic stem cells and a new technique. In previous research,...

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·February 16, 2011·5 min read

Alzheimer’s Symptoms Reversed in Mice with Human Tau Genes

Alzheimer’s disease research has lead to important findings involving the tau gene and the possibility of reversing the disease’s progression....

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·February 9, 2011·5 min read

Reelin Nerve Cells Into Neocortex Without Glial Cell Hooks

Scientists found that the protein named reelin is deeply involved in the migration of new nerve cells to the neocortex...

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·February 8, 2011·2 min read

Stem Cells Delivered in Nasal Spray Ease Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms in Rats

Scientists have shown that stem cells delivered to rats via a nasal spray lead to an improvement of motor functions...

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·February 1, 2011·3 min read

Oxidative Stress, Defective Nucleoli Likely a Cause of Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s disease may be caused by oxidative stress within cells due to defective nucleoli. Dopamine producing neurons are particularly sensitive...

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·January 31, 2011·4 min read

Genetic Mutations in Brain Tumors Could Turn Out Useful

Scientists have discovered genetic mutations in brain tumors that alter brain tumor metabolism. The scientists report that cells with defective...

Electrophysiology Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·January 27, 2011·3 min read

Myelination, Schwann Cells Devastated in Erk Knock-out Mice

The researchers knocked out the Erk gene during peripheral nervous system development in mice. The researchers noticed the neurons of these knock-out mice were largely unaffected, but Schwann cells were "just devastated at every stage of development."

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·January 19, 2011·4 min read

MicroRNA-29 Makes Brain Cells Resist Programmed Cell Death

Neuroscientists found that the specific microRNA, microRNA-29 (miR-29), can make brain cells resistant to programmed cell death. The researchers injected...

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·January 18, 2011·2 min read

Protein Misfolding and Aggregation Roles in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Max Planck researchers discovered that large, less hydrophobic proteins with a significant increase of disorder in their structures were more...

Electrophysiology Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·January 12, 2011·4 min read

Adrenaline Receptor Imaged for First Time

New imaging techniques using newly developed stable antibodies and X-ray crystallography allows imaging of the adrenaline receptors for the first...

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·January 10, 2011·2 min read

Gene Translation Targeted in Huntington’s Disease Research

Huntington’s disease research using simple organisms such as baker’s yeast has yielded new information about underlying mechanisms of Huntington’s disease...

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·December 20, 2010·2 min read

Another Marathon Mouse Engineered – Boosting Acetylcholine Reduces Fatigue

After inserting a gene into mice that increases choline transporter and as a result increases acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions, the engineered mice were able to run on treadmills twice as long as controls without the inserted gene.