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Crocodile Ears: Why Reptilian Hearing Stays Sharp Throughout Life
Impaired hearing affects over 1.2 billion people worldwide. But crocodiles, who live almost as long as humans and can surpass 70 years of age, have good hearing throughout their lives. One reason is because crocodiles can create new hair cells, and a research group is now on the path to finding out why.
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Diamond Sensor Could Allow Portable Brain Imaging
A new innovation could make brain scans portable, potentially enabling better insights into concussion, epilepsy and dementia.
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Imaging Shows How Children's Brains React Differently to Storytelling
Scientists have shown how our brain’s response to watching emotional and social stimuli in a movie changes between infancy and adulthood.
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New Research Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About Limb Regeneration
Findings from Ken Muneoka and his team present a shift in the thinking of how regeneration could work in human medicine.
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ADHD Medication Could Have Benefits for Alzheimer’s Disease Symptom
A new study has suggested that noradrenergic drugs, a class of compounds that includes antidepressants, hypertension aids and the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug ritalin, could help treat selected symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Why Linking Nutrition to Dementia Risk Is So Difficult
A recent survey of the research surrounding nutrition and dementia risk has highlighted why finding convincing evidence linking the two is so difficult.
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Low Oxygen During Exercise Clouds Our Judgement
Researchers have shown that reductions in neural activity during exercise in low-oxygen conditions could be prevented by maintaining oxygen saturation.
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What Makes the Human Brain Ready for Language?
Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. Compared to chimpanzee brains, the pattern of connections of language areas in our brain has expanded more than previously thought.
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Largest Genetic Atlas of Zebrafish Published
Medical and life science researchers will benefit from the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic data on zebrafish, newly published research suggests.
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Computer Model Makes Light Work of Telling Faces Apart
Research has revealed insights into how brains process similar faces, enabling a computer model to tell faces apart.
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