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Scientists Record Electrical Activity From a Single Brain Cell for More Than a Year

Scientists have developed an electronic implant that collected detailed information about brain activity from a single cell of interest for more than a year.
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Ultrasound Procedure Could Lead to Parkinson's Improvement

Patients with Parkinson’s disease achieved a significant improvement in their tremors, mobility, and other physical symptoms after having a minimally-invasive procedure involving focused ultrasound.
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Trial Investigates Mistletoe Extract as Possible Cancer Treatment

Mistletoe extract has been widely used to support cancer therapy and improve quality of life, but there has been a lack of clinical trials and data to support its use until a recent trial from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
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Novel Bioprinting Approach Improves Cell Density and Resolution of Tissues

Researchers have made significant advances in solving some of the most vexing challenges in bioprinting 3D-engineered tissues while meeting the key requirements of high cell density, high cell viability and fine fabrication resolution.
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"Fingerprinting" Calcium Deposits May Provide Information on Cancer

A new study has characterized “fingerprints” in calcium mineral deposits (microcalcifications), revealing pathological clues to the progression of breast cancer and potentially other diseases.
The contracted and extended states of Spirostomum cells.
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How a Single-Cell Organism Orchestrates the Fastest Movements in the Biological World

A research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the molecular basis of the ultrafast movement of Spirostomum protists.
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Signs of TB Adaptation in Ancient Andeans Discovered

A new genomic study suggests that Indigenous populations in present-day Ecuador also adapted to the tuberculosis bacterium, thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans.
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Worse Hay Fever Symptoms Reported by Those Living in Urban Areas

People living in urban areas report significantly worse hay fever symptoms according to the first study to compare pollution levels with the severity and duration of real-time symptoms.
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Obesity Tied to Alzheimer’s-Related Genes

Twenty-one Alzheimer's disease-related genes have been linked with obesity in a new study, providing a potential explanation for why Alzheimer's can be more common in adults who experienced obesity in midlife.
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Lithium-Air Battery Could Power for Longer Than Lithium-Ion

A new, safer battery, tested for a thousand cycles in a test cell, can store far more energy than today’s common lithium-ion batteries.
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