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Large aggregates of ALS-causing protein might actually help brain cells: UNC School of Medicine scientists add to evidence that small aggregates of SOD1 protein are the brain-cell killing culprits in ALS, but the formation of larger, more visible, and fibril-like aggregates of the same protein may protect brain cells

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have made a significant advance in the understanding of the complex and fatal

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How chronic early-life stress raises PTSD vulnerability: Persistent stress in adolescence appears to increase vulnerability through elevated ghrelin levels in rat model and in humans

A collaboration between investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital and Khyber Medical University in Pakistan may have discovered how chronic stress

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