Biological Sciences
We’re entering the era of big neuroscience. In a little over a year, the United States, Europe, Japan and Israel have launched brain research projects with big budgets and bold ambitions. Several other countries are expected to follow suit. But what has propelled neuroscience to the vanguard, and what impact will these initiatives have on the field?
A novel looping mechanism that involves the end caps of DNA may help explain the aging of cells and how they initiate and transmit disease, according to new research from UT Southwestern Medical Center cell biologists.
Students and professors develop a novel way to help those with visual impairment
Damaged messenger RNA can jam cellular machines that make protein. The failure to clear the jams and chew up bad messengers is associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Study identifies new player in brain function and memory.
New technology can detect bacterial invaders with unprecedented speed, sensitivity.
Induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) created from adult cells hold promise for therapeutic transplantation, but their potential in this capacity has been limited by failed efforts to maintain such cells in the desirable multi-potent NSC state without continuous expression of the transcription factors used initially to reprogram them.
New TSRI study shows how brain maps develop to help us perceive the world.
Kansas State University researchers have developed a patented method of keeping mosquitoes and other insect pests at bay.
After the worst coral bleaching event ever recorded in Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i scientists and researchers with the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) are diligently monitoring and testing affected coral reefs in Kane'ohe Bay, along with other areas on O'ahu, and parts of the Northwestern Hawaiian islands.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher Vladimir Zharov, Ph.D., D.Sc., recently was awarded a $1.5 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to investigate the use of nanoparticles in cancer diagnosis and treatment.
