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31Aug
Study shows how common genetic variants in Black Americans increase Alzheimer’s risk
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Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Genomics (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100642 Columbia University researchers have discovered how variants of the ABCA7 gene, which are common among Black Americans, increase the risk for Alzheimer’s […]
28Aug
Discovery gives answers to parents of children with rare neurological gene mutation
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MRI images of people with epileptic encephalopathy. Credit: The Neuro Shortly after Kelly Cervantes’s daughter Adelaide was born, she started having terrible seizures. Doctors were unable to give her a […]
23Aug
A new culprit in Huntington’s: Brain organoid model implicates gene in disease progression
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Huntington’s Disease organoids (right) exhibit almost no neural progenitors (red) and also show defects in cellular polarity (yelllow). These defects have been described in the literature in human fetuses with […]
22Aug
Legal challenges in human brain organoid research and its applications
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by Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University Human brain organoids are three-dimensional neural tissues derived from stem cells that can mimic some aspects of the […]
15Aug
Scientists discover method to activate dormant stem cells in the brain
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In the Drosophila brain, dormant neural stem cells with protrusions rich in actin filaments. Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the […]
01Aug
New insights into fruit fly cell regulation may offer clues for treating brain tumors
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Working model of the termination of medulla NBs. Credit: eLife (2024). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.96876 Peter Mac researchers have discovered new insights into neural stem cell development in fruit flies that may […]