Dec. 06, 2019Products
To unlock extra information in your research slides, Olympus has launched the VS200, an automated slide scanner with built-in X Line objectives. The VS200 takes research productivity to the next level with multiple observation methods ...
Nov. 11, 2019News
In neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinson's disease, a specific group of neurons start to die one by one, causing movement problems and other symptoms. Scientists have long focused on finding out why these neurons die. Now it ...
Oct. 24, 2019News
New cellular and molecular processes underlying communication between gut microbes and brain cells have been described for the first time by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell's Ithaca campus.
Sep. 27, 2019News
Telomeres are the protective caps of our chromosomes and play a central role in the aging process. Shorter telomeres are associated with chronic diseases and high stress levels can contribute to their shortening. A new study now shows that ...
Apr. 11, 2019News
What if the brain could detect its own disease? Researchers have been trying to create a material that “thinks” like the brain does, which would be more sensitive to early signs of neurological diseases such as ...
Mar. 21, 2019News
The brains of different mammals vary significantly in size. During human evolution, the size of the brain and the number of neurons therein increased profoundly, especially in a particular region called the neocortex, which is the seat of ...
Feb. 04, 2019News
While the neural architecture responsible for the transmission of electrical impulses has been known for more than a century, the basic biology behind how a neuron acquires its one and only axon - a fundamental component of how neurons ...
Oct. 19, 2018News
A team of Tufts University-led researchers has developed three-dimensional (3D) human tissue culture models for the central nervous system that mimic structural and functional features of the brain and demonstrate neural activity sustained ...
Sep. 06, 2018News
Silence in the concert hall. The conductor raises the baton and the strings begin. They play the first four bars of Mozart's "A Little Night Music". All together they play a single melody, which is probably one of the best ...
Mar. 08, 2018News
What happens when serotonin levels increase in human brain? How does this affect our behavior? This is a question that highly interests neuroscientists: serotonin has multiple functions in the brain and understanding what it actually does ...
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