A novel vaccine candidate that offers protection against Lassa fever has been developed by researchers from Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Maryland Baltimore, in partnership with the Geneva Foundation and the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). In preclinical animal models, the study, which […]
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Findings could inform artificial intelligence research by helping investigators determine how one could develop more distributed neural networks.
This new research, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, suggested that the cognitive impairments of COVID-19 presented similar fundamental changes within the brain to those showing evidence of dementia.
A landmark 2018 study, Garvan scientists were the first in the world to directly observe i-motifs inside living human cells using a new antibody tool they had developed, that was able specifically to bind to them.
It is like the communication network that genes have among them to affect one another.
Mitochondria live in all our cells, but unlike other organelles, mitochondria sport their own DNA—a small, circular strand with about three dozen genes.
Naturally, the code depends upon the assistance of massive proteins called transcription factors, which determine which genes in one’s genome are turned on or off.
The researchers focused on mouse retinal ganglion cells in the study, which project from the retina to the superior colliculus a part of the brain where they synapse onto downstream target neurons.
One of the curious features of the thymus, however, is that it serves as the very first organ in our body to become small with age.
New findings out of Emory University are shaking theories of the origin of Alzheimer’s the leading cause of dementia among older adults worldwide.
