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·April 1, 2011·2 min read

Skywalker Ensures Optimal Communication Between Neurons

Communication errors between brain cells may lead to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s Patrik Verstreken (VIB/K.U.Leuven) has discovered the mechanism...

Featured Genetics Neurology

·March 10, 2011·2 min read

Bone Marrow Stem Cells Safe for Young Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

The results of a Phase 1 clinical trial involving stem cells from a patient's own bone marrow used to treat traumatic brain injury in children show that the procedure is safe.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·March 4, 2011·4 min read

Neuronal Loss in ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Possibly Due to TDP-43 Loss

Research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, has lead to new information about neuronal loss...

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·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,...

Featured Genetics Neurology

·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....

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·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...

Brain Cancer Featured Genetics Neurology

·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."

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...

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·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...

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·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.

Genetics Neuroscience

·December 17, 2010·2 min read

Pain in the Potassium Channels

The removal of a certain class of potassium channels from the surface of nociceptors is believed to be a key factor in inflammatory pain signaling. Using gene interference to reduce the expression of these specific potassium channels on nociceptors, researchers were able to produce hyperexcitability in nociceptors resembling that seen in inflammatory pain signaling.

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Genetics

Skywalker Ensures Optimal Communication Between Neurons

Bone Marrow Stem Cells Safe for Young Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

Neuronal Loss in ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Possibly Due to TDP-43 Loss

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

Alzheimer’s Symptoms Reversed in Mice with Human Tau Genes

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

Genetic Mutations in Brain Tumors Could Turn Out Useful

Myelination, Schwann Cells Devastated in Erk Knock-out Mice

Adrenaline Receptor Imaged for First Time

Gene Translation Targeted in Huntington’s Disease Research

Another Marathon Mouse Engineered – Boosting Acetylcholine Reduces Fatigue

Pain in the Potassium Channels

The Placenta May Decide Autism Vulnerability

Imaging Index Links Blood Flow to Cellular Architecture

Nighttime Light Exposure Linked to Sleep Loss in Schizophrenia

Eye-Blink Rate Predicts Cognitive Flexibility in Preschoolers

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