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Nobel Laureate Jerome Karle has passed away at age 94.
Investment in brain research should aim at protecting the brains of the future from harmful environmental pollutants.
The cell fragments play a role in the body’s first line of defense against bacterial infection, helping white blood cells grab blood-borne bacteria in the liver.
Researchers identify the signaling program that enables finger and toenail stem cells to direct digit regeneration after amputation.
Controlling computers with the mind and learning motor skills rely on a similar set of brain regions.
Retrospective carbon dating of human hippocampal cells confirms substantial adult neurogenesis and suggests that the process contributes to brain function.
A compound that targets a particular opioid receptor in the amygdala reduces the formation of PTSD-like systems in mice subjected to severe trauma.
In avian species, a gene induces programmed cell death during development in the area where a phallus would otherwise grow.
Stimulating brain cells with light reveals the dysfunctional circuitry that causes obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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