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Using live brain tissue, researchers showed that electrical stimulation activates gene expression that leads to increased neuron firing in humans. 

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How the Brain Selects What Experiences to Keep

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Spying on Transgenic Ants Reveals How Their Brains Respond to Alarm Odors

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Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits

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Newly Identified Neural Signature of Drug Craving Could Predict Drug Use

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Opinion: Neuroscience Could Help Demystify Religious Experience

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Tetraplegic Patients Take Mind-Controlled Wheelchair for a Spin

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Researchers Report Decoding Thoughts from fMRI Data

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Which Neurons Go to Sleep First in Humans? fMRI Can Tell

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Same Parts of the Brain Control Processing of Dozens of Languages

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Sex-Specific Dioxin Toxicity in a Humanized AHR Model

Sex-Specific Dioxin Toxicity in a Humanized AHR Model

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Who Will Win the 2026 Nobel Prize? Scientists Make Their Predictions

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Chemistry Nobel Prize for Asymmetric Organic Synthesis

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Evaluating Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Staging

Evaluating Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Staging

​Beckman Coulter
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Gene Editing Precision Depends on Guide RNA Quality

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Antarctica’s Blood Falls Teems With Mysterious Microbial Life

Miles away from the closest ocean, marine microbes thrive in the red ice and mud around Blood Falls, offering clues to microbial adaptation and past climate events.

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Evaluating Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Staging

Evaluating Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Staging

​Beckman Coulter
Find better biologics faster with Stunner and the AI Developability Workcell

Find better biologics faster with Stunner and the AI Developability Workcell

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Characterizing LNP Heterogeneity With Super-Resolution Imaging

Characterizing LNP Heterogeneity With Super-Resolution Imaging

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