The brain has an uncanny ability to enhance or reduce communication between brain cells. Whether or not communication is fast or slow changes the brain’s overall function. Understanding how these cells communicate within the brain is critical to understanding how our bodies and minds work together. Terunaga Nakagawa, associate professor of molecular physiology and biophysics,...
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Scientists reveal relationship between Dek and Intron retention during muscle stem cells quiescence
Muscle stem cells, the reserve stem cell in the skeletal muscles, are responsible for muscle repair after damage. They are the ‘regenerative medicine’ to cure muscle diseases and muscle damage. In a healthy uninjured condition, muscle stem cells are in quiescence, a dormant state, to preserve them. Whenever there is muscle damage, they will wake...
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What is CBD and what are its health benefits?
by Marc Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University Increasingly, products containing cannabidiol, or CBD, a chemical component of cannabis, are popping up at grocery stores, gas stations, drugstores, and internet marketplaces. Celebrated for its purported therapeutic effects and legal when derived from hemp—a form of the cannabis plant—CBD can be found in shampoos, hand lotions, skin creams,...
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New function in gene-regulatory protein discovered
Researchers at Umeå and Stockholm universities in Sweden and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US have published a new study in the journal Molecular Cell. In the article, they show how the protein CBP affects the expression of genes through its interaction with the basal machinery that reads the instructions in our DNA....