Herbert “Skip” Virgin IV, MD, PhD, talks with postdoctoral researcher Dale Balce, PhD. Virgin led a study linking intestinal viruses to the development of Type 1 diabetes. The study showed that children who carried a specific virus belonging to...
Researchers gave 17 individuals auditory memory tasks that required them to recognize a pattern of tones when it was reversed, while being recorded on MEG and EEG.
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The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds,...
A volunteer creates an ancient Acheulean hand axe wearing a cap designed to measure brain activity.
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By using highly advanced brain imaging technology to observe modern humans crafting ancient tools, an Indiana University neuroarchaeologist has found evidence...
Network of synthetic-lethal interactions connecting commonly mutated genes to potential drug targets.
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Genetic mutations that cause cancer also weaken cancer cells, creating an opportunity for researchers to develop drugs that will selectively kill them, while sparing...
Virus' envelope. Its unusual structure, never before seen in nature, could let scientists develop super-durable materials and better treat disease.
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It's like the Superman of viruses, astonishingly tough and able to survive in an environment...
Teenagers should reduce exposure to light in the evenings, say researchers.
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Delaying school start times in the UK is unlikely to reduce sleep deprivation in teenagers, research from the University of Surrey and Harvard Medical School...
The genetics underlying Tourette disorder have remained largely a mystery -- until now.
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Tourette disorder (also known as Tourette syndrome) afflicts as many as one person in a hundred worldwide with potentially disabling symptoms including involuntary...
These are MRIs of healthy (left) and a patient with a mutation that increases CCM formation (right). These lesions can cause blood to leak into the tissue.
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A study in mice and humans suggests that...
The vegetarian diet was found to be almost twice as effective in reducing body weight than the conventional diet.
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Dieters who go vegetarian not only lose weight more effectively than those on conventional low-calorie diets...
Kowal studied the direct and chronic effects of cannabis on dopamine-related functions, such as creative thinking and the ability to recognize one's own mistakes.
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Regular users of cannabis are less aware of their own mistakes, and...
Total sleep deprivation or partial sleep deprivation can produce clinical improvement in depression symptoms within 24 hours.
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Sleep deprivation -- typically administered in controlled, inpatient settings -- rapidly reduces symptoms of depression in roughly half of...
