Despite its central importance, the brain's origins have not yet been uncovered. The first animal brains appeared hundreds of millions of years ago. Today, only the most primitive animal species, such as aquatic sponges, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 4, 2021
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Brain organoids are models of the brain made from growing stem cells like iPS cells into three-dimensional structures. They are used to study all sorts of brain-related phenomenon, including neural networks and disease development. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 28, 2021
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Brain cancer is difficult to contain and is often resistant to conventional treatment methods. Predicting tumor cell behavior requires a better understanding of their invasion mechanism. Now, researchers from University of ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 25, 2021
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Our DNA is very similar to that of the chimpanzee, which in evolutionary terms is our closest living relative. Stem cell researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now found a previously overlooked part of our DNA, so-called ...
Evolution
Oct 8, 2021
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The NIH Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) has unveiled an atlas of cell types and an anatomical neuronal wiring diagram for the mammalian primary ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 6, 2021
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Researchers find large hagfishes grow extremely large cells in order to produce stronger threads that are used in their defensive slime, reports a new study from the Chapman University at Orange, California.
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2021
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For two people to communicate in a loud, crowded room, they need to be standing side by side. The same is often true for neurons in the brain. But the same way a cell phone allows two people to communicate clearly across ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 29, 2021
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In a discovery published in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers has described a novel molecular device with exceptional computing prowess.
General Physics
Sep 1, 2021
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A new study reveals that high-grade gliomas, or brain tumors, in dogs contained more immune cells associated with suppressing immune response than low-grade gliomas. The work, which is the most extensive examination of immune ...
Veterinary medicine
Aug 19, 2021
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Incretins are hormones secreted by intestinal cells that regulate pancreatic insulin and glucagon to control sugar metabolism in mammals. Although counterparts of insulin and glucagon have been identified in invertebrates, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 18, 2021
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