AutismGenetics·February 2, 2012·3 min readGene Regulator in Brain’s Executive Hub Tracked Across LifespanMental illness suspect genes are among the most environmentally responsive. For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across...Read More
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Genetics·January 31, 2012·5 min readScientists Turn Skin Cells Into Neural Precursors, Bypassing Stem Cell StageMouse skin cells can be converted directly into cells that become the three main parts of the nervous system, according...Read More
Genetics·January 26, 2012·2 min readEnvelope for an Artificial CellChemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have...Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeuroethicsNeurologyNeuroscience Videos·January 25, 2012·4 min readResearchers Induce Alzheimer’s Neurons from Pluripotent Stem CellsFirst-ever feat provides new method to understand cause of disease, develop drugs Led by researchers at the University of California,...Read More
Genetics·January 19, 2012·3 min readGenetic Study Offers Clues to How Intelligence Changes Through LifeScientists have estimated for the first time the extent to which genes determine changes in intelligence across the human life...Read More
GeneticsNeuroethics·January 17, 2012·3 min readA First: Brain Support Cells from Umbilical Cord Stem CellsFor the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may...Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience Videos·January 13, 2012·2 min readWalk 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...Read More
GeneticsPsychology·January 4, 2012·2 min readA Gene for Depression LocalizedPsychiatric disorders can be described on many levels, the most traditional of which are subjective descriptions of the experience of...Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience·December 20, 2011·2 min readHuman Skull Study Causes Evolutionary HeadacheScientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred...Read More
Genetics·December 16, 2011·4 min readUCSF-Led Team Discovers Cause of Rare Disease – PKD/ICChildhood Disorder Called PKD that Causes Epileptic Seizures Linked to Genetic Mutations A large, international team of researchers led by...Read More
GeneticsNeuroscience·December 15, 2011·2 min readNeuroscientists Boost Memory Using Genetics and Memory Enhancing DrugWhen the activity of a molecule that is normally elevated during viral infections is inhibited in the brain, mice learn...Read More
