Researchers studying differences in how individuals respond to stress are finding that genes are malleable and environments can be deterministic.
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In an essay entitled "Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That is Life," neurobiologists Darlene Francis and Daniela Kaufer envision a future where science moves past the nature vs. nurture debate in considering differences in human behavioral responses to stress.
What does a normally aging brain look like? Are diseases of aging such as Alzheimer’s inevitable?
Looking for a more realistic way to study memory, we turned to place cells—a network of cells that record a rat’s memory of an environment. Each place cell would fire only when the rat was in one particular location in space, creating a map as the
Long-term potentiation (LTP), discovered in the 1970s, was later shown to be the molecular basis of memory. Since many diseases of aging affect memory, could memory formation and storage be altered by the same mechanisms in normal aging and diseased
In the memory circuits of the aging brain and the signaling pathways of pain, science is trading mystery for mastery.
A blood protein involved in allergy contributes to the decline in brain function and memory in aging mice.
Stretching muscle cells as they grow helps promote the expression of growth factors.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.
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