Precise changes in brain circuitry occur as young zebra finches go from listening to their fathers' courtship songs to knowing the songs themselves, according to a study led by neuroscientists at NYU Langone Medical Center ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2016
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Pluripotent stem cells derived from different cell types are equally susceptible to reprogramming, indicates a recent study.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 14, 2016
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In the brains of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, medical researchers can observe protein deposits, also called aggregates. For many years, these aggregates have been suspected to contribute to the death of nerve ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2016
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Protein deposits in cells, such as those associated with diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, can also be beneficial—at least for yeast cells, as biochemists at ETH Zurich have discovered. The researchers found a ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 8, 2016
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Cells have an infallible sense of smell that tells them which direction to grow in to move closer to the source of a scent. ETH researchers have now learned how this sense of smell works.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 21, 2015
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Biophysicists have developed a hypothesis to explain the function of a light-driven protein that pumps sodium ions across a cell membrane, and they have revealed the key structural feature of these pumps. The sodium pumps ...
Biochemistry
Dec 15, 2015
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University of Manchester scientists have discovered a cluster of 60 proteins that allow the body's cells to react to their environment and communicate with each other.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 27, 2015
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Before the fluid of the middle ear drains and sound waves penetrate for the first time, the inner ear cells of newborn rodents practice for their big debut. Researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have figured out the molecular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 25, 2015
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Changes in cellular metabolites have been shown to regulate embryonic stem cell development at the earliest stages of life. Metabolites are simple compounds generated during life-sustaining chemical activities in cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 16, 2015
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Building on wireless technology that has the potential to interfere with pain, scientists have developed flexible, implantable devices that can activate—and, in theory, block—pain signals in the body and spinal cord before ...
Biotechnology
Nov 9, 2015
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