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Scientists have found that unique sets of proteins and pathways present in specific animal models commonly used in research are also present and mutated in human disease.

In a new study, researchers have identified why we gain weight as we get older - decreased lipid turnover.

A team of Italian mathematicians has shown that artificial vision machines can learn to recognize complex images spectacularly faster by using a mathematical theory that was developed 25 years ago by one of this new study’s co-authors. Their results have been published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.

If you’ve spent time with individuals affected with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), you might have noticed that some people lose their memory and other cognitive skills more slowly than others. Why is that? New findings indicate that at least part of the answer may lie in differences in their immune responses.

Many people have experienced stressful situations that trigger a particular mood and also change certain feelings toward food. Researchers looked into the possibility of crosstalk between eating and mood and discovered a brain circuit in mouse models that connects the feeding and the mood centers of the brain.

Could a chemical produced by the brain that regulates mood, sleep and breathing also be protective in people with epilepsy? New research has found that higher levels of serotonin in the blood after a seizure are linked to a lower incidence of seizure-related breathing problems called apneas, when a person temporarily stops breathing.

Researchers have developed a method to simultaneously analyze how chromosomes, along with their epigenetic features, are compacted inside of single human brain cells.

Using a genetic mouse model of schizophrenia, researchers showed that, like in patients, characteristic network and cognitive deficits only emerge in adult mice. They then demonstrated that these deficits could all be permanently prevented by specific treatments during a late adolescence sensitive time window.

Researchers have described a key component of nerve signaling, where a biological “brake” holds back neurotransmitters until it is disengaged. The finding is an advance in our basic understanding of how brain cells communicate.

A team of researchers has now analyzed 24 genomes of Trichosporonales fungi with a focus on genes that are important for sexual development.