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David Schulz, a professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Science, and a research team worked to validate a popular research method called RNA sequencing used to identify unknown neurons in the brain and sort them into various subtypes. Credit: University of Missouri “Being crabby” might have …

A new ebola vaccine by a Belgian subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson went into use last month in the Democratic Republic of Congo Japanese scientists will begin the country’s first human trial for a new vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus this month, they said Friday. The vaccine, which has …

Dr. Hanna Mikkola and Vincenzo Calvanese. Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center UCLA scientists have discovered a link between a protein and the ability of human blood stem cells to self-renew. In a study published today in the journal Nature, the team reports that activating the protein causes blood …

Schematic representation of participant listening to the experimental conditions. In the control condition (a), the isochronous beat was always presented at 0° (in front of the participant). In the spatial conditions, such as the Spatial 60° (b), the isochronous beat alternated at symmetrical angular positions: the first sound was presented …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Officials from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics have announced that preliminary results from testing CRISPR gene-editing treatment in human patients with blood disorders show promise thus far. The joint project between the two firms is taking place at one location in Europe and another in the …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Photoinitators (PIs) are compounds used in the ink of many types of food packaging. The substances have been shown to migrate into food and, when consumed, show up in human blood serum. Now, for the first time, researchers report they have detected PIs in human breast …

Lung tissue. Credit: Rutgers University A Yale-led collaborative study boosts scientific understanding of how the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) progresses, providing a roadmap for researchers to discover new treatment targets for the disease. The study, led by Naftali Kaminski, M.D., the Boehringer-Ingelheim Endowed Professor of Internal Medicine and …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Glioblastoma multiforme, or GBM, is the most frequently occurring and gravest primary tumor of the central nervous system in adults. Poor survival rates among patients with GBM are associated with the development of resistance to chemotherapy drug temozolomide (TMZ). A recent study in The FASEB Journal …

Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research and the Ghent University hospital, together with research teams from the Helmholtz Zentrum in München and the National University of Australia in Canberra, identified a new genetic cause of hemophagocytic syndrome, a rare immune disease characterized by a dangerous and uncontrolled overproduction …

Left: Screenshot of spatial memory task. Middle: MRI scan showing the placement of recording electrodes (black circles) in a patient’s brain. Credit: Salman Qasim/Columbia Engineering An important aspect of human memory is our ability to conjure specific moments from the vast array of experiences that have occurred in any given …