Envelope for an Artificial Cell
Chemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell memb... Read More...
Genetics
Genetics articles related to neuroscience research will be listed here.
Researchers Induce Alzheimer’s Neurons from Pluripotent Stem Cells
First-ever feat provides new method to understand cause of disease, develop drugsLed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Med... Read More...
Genetic Study Offers Clues to How Intelligence Changes Through Life
Scientists have estimated for the first time the extent to which genes determine changes in intelligence across the human life course.The study found that g... Read More...
A First: Brain Support Cells from Umbilical Cord Stem Cells
For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for s... Read More...
Walk This Way: Scientists and MBL Physiology Course Students Describe How a Motor Protein “Steps Out”
Just like people, some proteins have characteristic ways of “walking,” which (also like human gaits) are not so easy to describe. But now scientists have discov... Read More...
A Gene for Depression Localized
Psychiatric disorders can be described on many levels, the most traditional of which are subjective descriptions of the experience of being depressed and the us... Read More...
Human Skull Study Causes Evolutionary Headache
Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolu... Read More...
UCSF-Led Team Discovers Cause of Rare Disease – PKD/IC
Childhood Disorder Called PKD that Causes Epileptic Seizures Linked to Genetic MutationsA large, international team of researchers led by scientists at the ... Read More...
Neuroscientists Boost Memory Using Genetics and Memory Enhancing Drug
When the activity of a molecule that is normally elevated during viral infections is inhibited in the brain, mice learn and remember better, researchers at Bayl... Read More...
Towards a Therapy to Healing Stroke
KIT Biologists Supply Major Results for Understanding the Thalamus, the “Relay Center” of the BrainThe thalamus is the central translator in the brain: Spec... Read More...
Some Muscular Dystrophy Patients at Increased Risk for Cancer
People who have the most common type of adult muscular dystrophy also have a higher risk of getting cancer, according to a paper published today in the Journal ... Read More...
Babies Born with No Eyes: Scientists Identify Genetic Cause of Anophthalmia
Scientists at University College Dublin, Ireland, have identified a genetic alteration which causes a child to be born with no eyes – a condition called anophth... Read More...