Speed, agility and strength are definitely assets on the football field. But when it comes to hits to the head,
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The birth of vision, from the retina to the brain
How is the retina formed? And how do neurons differentiate to become individual components of the visual system? By focusing
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International team discovers unique pathway for treating deadly children’s brain cancer: Genomic bait and switch starves mutation that contributes to Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG)
An international team of researchers led by Yale University, University of Iowa, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an
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Shrinking brain tumors and opening the door for targeted cancer therapies
A new drug, known as IP1867B, could be used for future treatments of brain tumours. Dr Richard Hill led the
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New tech for multiple sclerosis diagnosis and treatment: Patent-pending tool creates 3D images of brain lesions
Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth®, part of The University of Texas at Dallas, in collaboration with a team from
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First step to induce self-repair in the central nervous system
Damaged peripheral nerves can regenerate after an injury, for example, following a forearm fracture. Axons, the long projections of neurons
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Fooling nerve cells into acting normal: Discovery could inform future studies related to spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy
Nerve cells, or neurons — specifically the “workhorse cells” involved in walking, breathing and chewing — can adjust to changes
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New treatment could become first targeted therapy designed for ‘untreatable’ childhood brain cancer
A new type of drug that targets a genetic weakness in an untreatable childhood brain cancer could become the first
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New chemical probe for visualizing brain immune cells
Researchers in South Korea and Singapore have, for the first time, developed a chemical probe that enables live-imaging of a
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Gender identity leaves imprint on human brains
Society’s expectations about gender roles alter the human brain at the cellular level, according to a paper published by a
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