by University of Göttingen Chronic 2-photon imaging of fluorescently labeled visual cortical neurons in the living adult mouse brain: within the first 4 days of imaging, from day 0 (d0) to day 4 (d4), one dendritic spine (white dendritic protrusion) was newly formed (green arrow); after selective visual stimulation over the next 4 days (until d8),...
Using cellular genomics, Garvan-led researchers have uncovered new links between DNA variants and cell gene activity. Researchers led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have made a crucial step forward in the understanding of how our own DNA information influences our personal disease risk, thanks to cutting-edge cellular genomics technology. By analysing the gene activity of 64,018 individual skin...
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: OVERALL SCHEMATIC ILLUSTRATION OF THE FABRICATION OF EPUM USING PLCL USING A VIPS PROCESS DURING SPIN-COATING. THE FABRICATED MEMBRANE WAS TRANSFERRED TO A 12-WELL INSERT FOR CELL CO-CULTURE TO MIMIC AN ENDOTHELIAL BARRIER MODEL. CREDIT: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY(KIST) A Korean research group has developed a technology that allows...
HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY IMAGE: (A) BUD STAGE; (B) FLOWERING STAGE; (C) SPIKELETS CREDIT: QUAN, HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY Native to the southeastern United States, a weedy grass has spread northward to Canada and also made its way to Australia and Japan. Andropogon virginicus grows densely packed and up to seven feet tall, disrupting growth patterns of other plants and competing...
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL BOSTON – New treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are desperately needed, but numerous clinical trials of investigational drugs have failed to generate promising options. Now a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) has developed an artificial intelligence-based method to screen currently available medications as possible treatments for Alzheimer’s...
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a dying cell (blue) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 (yellow), the virus that causes COVID-19. Credit: NIAID Integrated Research Facility, Fort Detrick, Maryland. Pharmaceutical giant Merck and an American laboratory reported promising results Saturday in trials of a drug administered orally to fight COVID-19, saying it helps reduce patients’ viral load....
by Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In response to brain injury, neural stem cells cluster and migrate to the site of injury. The clustering is key—without it, the cells don’t travel. But what causes it? To investigate, Yale researchers created a 3-D model of the brain’s workings. The results of the...
by Jessica Cerretani, Children’s Hospital Boston Credit: Children’s Hospital Boston The ability to track seizures has a number of potential benefits: It could allow physicians to better determine optimal dosing and timing of medication, as well as enable timely interventions to help prevent impending seizures. Traditionally, electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography have been used to evaluate and...
Date: March 4, 2021 Source: Cell Press Brain cells called astrocytes derived from the induced pluripotent stem cells of patients with bipolar disorder offer suboptimal support for neuronal activity. In a paper appearing March 4th in the journal Stem Cell Reports, researchers show that this malfunction can be traced to an inflammation-promoting molecule called interleukin-6...
Sonya Narla, DO February 9, 2021, 1:15PM (PT) Key takeaways: COVID-19 vaccine rollout varies widely from region to region, so being proactive and checking with your local health department is key. If you start with a particular vaccine, you need to get the second shot with the same vaccine. Taking ibuprofen or acetaminophen to help...
