Slowing Alzheimer’s with a drug? Scientists want to find out if that’s possible

Slowing Alzheimer’s with a drug? Scientists want to find out if that’s possible

Every two weeks, a nurse visits 43-year-old Marty Reiswig in Denver, Colorado, and injects him with an experimental drug called ...
What can explain humans' complex cognitive capacity? Brain maps might give us answers

What can explain humans’ complex cognitive capacity? Brain maps might give us answers

Imagine looking at Earth from space and being able to listen in on what individuals are saying to each other ...
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How animals think

Neuroscientists wanting to understand the brain’s coding language have conventionally studied how its networks of cells respond to sensory information ...
First real anti-aging drug on the horizon? Common drugs turned back body’s epigenetic clock 2.5 years in small trial

First real anti-aging drug on the horizon? Common drugs turned back body’s epigenetic clock 2.5 years in small trial

A small clinical study in California has suggested for the first time that it might be possible to reverse the ...
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‘Software’ differences between monkey, human brains could explain our susceptibility to mental illness

Neuroscientists have for the first time discovered differences between the ‘software’ of humans and monkey brains, using a technique that ...
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Are these brain-protecting cells actually contributing to Alzheimer’s?

[Neuroscientist Michael Heneka] and his team had eliminated a key inflammation gene from a strain of mouse that usually develops ...
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‘Young blood’ infusions may boost cognitive abilities of Alzheimer’s patients

The first controlled, but controversial and small, clinical trial of giving young blood to people with dementia has reported that ...
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What do Germany’s election results mean for GMOs, gene-edited crops?

As Germany reels from an unexpected surge for the far right in the 24 September elections, researchers don’t expect much ...
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Theory behind Alzheimer’s cure remains credible even after drug trial failure

A drug that was seen as a major test of the leading theory behind Alzheimer’s disease has failed in a ...
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CRISPR co-discoverer Emmanuelle Charpentier continuing advances in gene editing

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Emmanuelle Charpentier's office is ...

Italian anti-GMO researcher may have engaged in improprieties

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Papers [by Professor Federico ...

Microbes outnumber human cells 10 to 1? Not so fast.

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's often said that ...

European researchers in limbo waiting for EU’s decision on whether CRISPR plants are GMOs

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plant geneticist Stefan Jansson ...
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UK scientists apply for first-ever human embryo gene editing license

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Scientists in London have ...

Octopus genome reveals surprising traits of sophisticated, alien-like earthling

With its eight prehensile arms lined with suckers, camera-like eyes, elaborate repertoire of camouflage tricks and spooky intelligence, the octopus ...
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Digital reconstruction of mouse brain opens path to human experimentation

Six years might seem like a long time to spend piecing together the structure of a scrap of tissue vastly ...

Neurological impact of premature birth starting to become known

Thanks to medical advances since the 1970s, premature infants — those born before 37 weeks of gestation — are increasingly ...

Conventional beliefs about unconscious thought may be overblown

If you have to make a complex decision, will you do a better job if you absorb yourself in, say, ...

After decade of controversy, fetal stem cells reemerge as Parkison’s treatment target

A neurosurgery team will next month transplant cells from aborted human fetuses into the brain of a person with Parkinson’s ...

Stem-cell ruling riles researchers

The following is an excerpt. Clinics that offer unproven stem-cell treatments often end up playing cat and mouse with health ...
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