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Researchers have discovered a new genetic defect which causes a form of intellectual disability; a finding that will improve screening programmes and help to end a 'diagnostic odyssey' for families across the globe.

Researchers have used the powerful tool of cryo-electron microscopy to determine the mechanism regulating the energy engines of cancer.

The discovery is an important step towards understanding how the brain codes navigation behavior at larger scales and could potentially open up new treatment strategies for people with impaired topographical orientation.

For decades scientists have been searching for a way to watch a live broadcast of the brain. But, neural electricity is just as hard to see as electricity in a telephone wire: To the unassisted eye, the busy brain looks as lifeless as rubber. A new study sheds literal light on the brain, transforming neural electrical signals into sparks visible through a microscope.

Researchers reporting in the ACS journal Nano Letters have used a 3D printer to make paper organs, complete with artificial blood vessels, that they can populate with cells.

Researchers have reported the results from a study that used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the difference in brain activity between alcoholic men and women.

"We found that deleting the ATDC gene in pancreatic cells resulted in one of the most profound blocks of tumor formation ever observed in a well-known mice model engineered to develop pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma... which faithfully mimics the human disease," says corresponding author Diane Simeone.

While network algorithms are usually associated with finding friends on social media, researchers at the University of Sussex have shown how they could also be used improve the effectiveness of cancer treatment, by predicting the interactions between genes.

A U-M study is the first to define how a little-known type of cell death impacts tumor cells and immune cells.

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have shed light on how cancers hijack the body's natural wound-healing response to grow and spread.