Neuroscientists are paying more attention to sleep spindles, short bursts of neuronal activity thought to play a role in memory consolidation while the body is at rest.
“Spindles appear to play a central role whenever memories during sleep are undergoing transformation that might be necessary to integrate them into neocortical long-term storage networks,” Jan Born of the University of Tübingen told The Scientist during a conference dedicated to sleep spindles held in Budapest in May.
Researchers at Genentech have reportedly stopped the spread of tau without activating effector function in mouse models and in vitro.
“It is excellent to see additional studies supporting the feasibility of tau immunotherapies,” Einar Sigurdsson of New York University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study, wrote in an email.
Sheep cloned through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) age normally, researchers from the University of Nottingham, U.K, and their colleagues have shown.
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