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Treatment Option for Spinal Cord Injuries: Osmotic Therapy Device Reduces Swelling, Preventing Secondary Injuries in Rats
The paper, “Implantable osmotic transport device can reduce edema after severe contusion spinal cord injury,” is published in the journal, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.
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Infrastructure Needed For Biobanking the World's Microbiomes
Scientists have outlined a series of challenges and opportunities presented in a necessary review of how microbiomes can be "banked" and preserved for generations to come.
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Young Children Will Pass Up Rewards if They Know They can Explore Other Options, a New Study Suggests
"Exploration seems to be a major driving force during early childhood -- even outweighing the importance of immediate rewards."
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New Study Suggests Working Memory Could Reside Within Single Neurons
"This work shows that we can meaningfully study language at the neurobiological level of explanation, using a causal modelling approach that may eventually allow us to develop a computational neurobiology of language."
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Yoga Shown to Improve Anxiety, New Study Confirms
A new study finds yoga improves symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, suggesting the popular practice may be helpful in treating anxiety in some people.
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Most Effective Way To Detect SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater Investigated
A group of researchers have demonstrated that, from seven methods commonly used to test for viruses in untreated wastewater, an adsorption-extraction technique can most efficiently detect SARS-CoV-2
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Washington University COVID-19 Vaccine Effective in Mice
An experimental vaccine is effective at preventing pneumonia in mice infected with the COVID-19 virus, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
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Hydrogen Sulfide Reverses Antibiotic Resistance in Some Bacteria
A study has found that exposing bacteria to hydrogen sulfide can increase antimicrobial sensitivity in bacteria that do not produce H2S.
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Neurotransmitter Ratio May Explain Why It's So Hard To Get Motivated
There is no question that motivation is one of the hardest and yet important factors in life. It's the difference between success and failure, goal-setting and aimlessness, well-being and unhappiness. And yet, why is it so hard to get motivated - or even if we do, to keep it up?
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How Do We Remember the Order of Words? Single-Neuron Spiking Could Be the Answer
Did the man bite the dog, or was it the other way around? When processing an utterance, words need to be assembled into the correct interpretation within working memory. Researchers have proposed a way in which the brain achieves this where individual neurons store and process chunks of information to build up a working memory for language.
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