by Ernie Mundell It was the ancient Greeks who first divided the 20-foot length of the small intestine into three parts: The duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum. However, the organ may finally be ready for an update: U.S. researchers say the small intestine is actually comprised of five distinct segments, each being responsible for...
by Timothy Dean, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Network plots for the Miami HRR (Panel A: 2002, Panel B: 2009). The 2009 plot is restricted to the most connected agencies of number equal to the total number of agencies in 2002. The nodes are colored with red (most), blue and green (least) corresponding to...
by The Ohio State University Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2023). DOI: 10.1172/JCI152071 A study by researchers at The Ohio State University reveals new insights into the cause of certain cardiac arrhythmia disorders. The findings may lead to new treatments. The study focused on a protein called calmodulin, which is found in many organs of the body....
by Tohoku University Previous (A) and updated circuit diagram (B) of the circuit from the hippocampus to the medial entorhinal cortex. We found that the ventral hippocampus efficiently sends out the information to the neocortex via the medial entorhinal cortex (blue arrows in B). Credit: Shinya Ohara et al. Wanting to better understand how the...
by Matthew Hastings, CU Anschutz Medical Campus Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Exposure therapy is a major treatment option used by clinicians to help patients face and get past their distressing and impairing fears. However, the fears can return in as many as 50% of patients. University of Colorado researchers recently published a study that presents...
by AJ Bouchie, Boyce Thompson Institute Boyce Thompson Institute’s Frank Schroeder and Jingfang Yu in BTI’s Center for Advanced Mass Spectrometry (CAMS). Credit: Image credit: Boyce Thompson Institute. Rates of anxiety and depression have been increasing around the world for decades, a trend that has been sharply exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. New research led...
by Will Doss, Northwestern University Left: Retinal ganglion cell recorded both at its cell body (soma) and at its axon, which sends spikes to the brain. Right: Electrical trace from the soma and axon of the cell on the left. Large somatic spikes are transmitted down the axon. Small spikes are not. Credit: Northwestern University...
by Li Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Proposed model of how different mutations in PiT2 cause Pi dyshomeostasis. Credit: CEBSIT A joint research team led by Dr. Liu Jingyu and Dr. Zhu Shujia from the Institute of Neuroscience (ION), CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (CEBSIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has...
JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITAET MAINZ IMAGE: SANS is essential for the release of tri-snRNPs from the Cajal bodies and their transfer to the nuclear speckles. There the spliceosome is assembled and subsequently activated. Therefore, SANS plays a crucial role in correct pre-RNA splicing as a whole. CREDIT: ILL./©: UWE WOLFRUM Human Usher syndrome (USH) is the...
by University of Southampton Image of the 3D ’tissue like’ culture system, developed by Dr Liku Tezera. Credit: Faculty of Medicine New research using human lung samples and three-dimensional bioengineering techniques to replicate the lung environment has revealed the important role of a subset of immune cells in the lung in fighting tuberculosis (TB). The cells, called T...
