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March 22, 2012
Scientists at the Life and Brain Research Center at the University of Bonn, Germany, have succeeded in directly generating brain stem cells from the connective tissue cells of mice.
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July 14, 2026
Clinical trial results show an experimental drug lowered tau levels in the brain and slowed some memory loss, but the data came with a surprise twist.
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February 6, 2012
Several periods of field work during 2008 have led to the discovery of a new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice in Costa Rica's high-altitude region Cerro de la Muerte. The discovery was made thanks to molecular data analysis of mitochondrial DNA. The collected records have also increased the overall knowledge of plant lice (one of the most dangerous agricultural pests worldwide) from the region with more that 20 percent. The study was published in the open-access journal ZooKeys.
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July 1, 2026
Walking sharks crawl on their fins across reefs and even out into tide pools. The newfound Dudgeon walking shark brings the known species count to 10.
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May 24, 2012
The JCI will publish research by Abiodun Ogunniyi and colleagues at the University of Adelaide in Australia, who have identified new vaccine targets in Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in the world.
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April 2, 2024
Patients with microplastics in their arteries were 4.5 times more likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die within the next three years.
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February 3, 2012
Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction -- say, doing a puzzle -- relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes? Neuromaging suggests they do. When applying a placebo, scientists see activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. That's the part of the brain that controls high-level cognitive functions like working memory and attention -- which is what you use to do that distracting puzzle.
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December 2, 2022
The detailed simulation shows the cosmos changing from a dark, featureless gas to a web of stars and galaxies radiating light.
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March 21, 2012
Human nature has deep evolutionary roots and is manifested in relationships with family members, friends, romantic and business partners, competitors, and strangers more than in any other aspects of behavior or intellectual activity, contends a University of Chicago behavioral biologist. "Social behavior is, in part, genetically controlled and evolves by natural selection," said Dario Maestripieri, professor of Comparative Human Development and Evolutionary Biology.
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February 13, 2012
University of Granada researchers have designed a new corpse identification technique that is more reliable and less costly than those currently employed. To carry out this study, the researchers collected data from a sample of 500 alive individuals from Mediterranean regions.
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