They are not only able to navigate their surroundings but also repair both themselves and injured neuron cells placed nearby. Taken together, these findings demonstrate the inherent plasticity of ...

How does the brain store—and access—our memories? While our understanding of the brain has (thankfully) developed greatly from the days of removing cerebral tissue to see what would happen, a precise ...

This simple outpatient procedure involves a small needle injected into the mass or nodule. The needle removes cells that will be examined in the lab under a microscope. Advanced imaging scans of your ...

Neurodegenerative diseases are a growing burden worldwide. Common conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, epileptic encephalopathy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS ...

Researchers have developed tiny, wireless devices capable of wrapping around individual neurons, potentially aiding in the ...

This valuable study reveals extensive binding of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) to the 3' untranslated regions (UTRs) of efficiently translated mRNAs in human pluripotent stem ...

It has also been observed that "solitary human lung cells can self-assemble into miniature multicellular organisms" that navigate their surroundings and "repair both themselves and injured neuron ...

Although systemic treatments like chemotherapy are effective at eliminating cancer cells throughout the body, they are unable to penetrate the brain, leaving it vulnerable to metastasis. Fifty percent ...

The tourism marketer must make the important decision as to whether he or she wishes to use an undifferentiated, concentrated, or differentiated targeting strategy (Table 5.1). An undifferentiated ...

In healthy rodent brains, newborn neurons are constantly generated in the stem cell niche, known as the subventricular zone (SVZ). These cells might help to repair a brain that has been damaged by ...