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NIH Study of WWII Evacuees Suggests Mental Illness May be Passed to Offspring
Mental illness associated with early childhood adversity may be passed from generation to generation, according to a study of adults whose parents evacuated Finland as children during World War II.
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Structure of Primary Optogenetic Tool Revealed
Researchers have determined the 3-D structure of channelrhodopsin 2, a membrane protein widely used in optogenetics to control nerve cells with light.This will allow meaningful mutations to be introduced into the protein to adjust its properties to the requirements of a specific experiment.
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Synpromics Announces Collaboration with UCL to Develop Revolutionary Gene Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
Synpromics Ltd is pleased to announce a new collaboration with UCL to generate a range of synthetic gene promoters for the central nervous system (CNS), to develop a gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease.
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Neurofeedback Found Beneficial in Tinnitus Treatment
Researchers using functional MRI (fMRI) have found that neurofeedback training has the potential to reduce the severity of tinnitus or even eliminate it.
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Quest for New Drugs Could be Helped by Cell Discovery
Scientists have made a key discovery that could speed up the production of cells in the lab for studying diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.
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Holding Infants – or not – Can Leave Traces on Their Genes
Children who have been more distressed as infants and have received less physical contact have a molecular profile that is underdeveloped for their age – pointing to the possibility that they are lagging biologically.
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Sodium MRI Reveals the Cause of Migraines
Migraine sufferers have significantly higher sodium concentrations in their cerebrospinal fluid than people without the condition, according to the first study to use a technique called sodium MRI.
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Trisomy 21: Research Breaks New Ground
Researchers at UNIGE and ETH Zurich have discovered that the symptoms of trisomy 21 are caused by the uncontrolled dysregulation of proteins in the cells.
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Mind's Eye Blink: Momentary unconscious gaps in visual perception.
Discovering momentary unconscious gaps in visual perception came as a surprise to the team of psychologists studying the benefits of attention.
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Human Brain-cancer Patients Set to Receive Cancer Drug in Clinical Trials
A drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct has been cleared for use in a clinical trial of patients with anaplastic astrocytoma, a rare malignant brain tumor, and glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive late-stage cancer of the brain.
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