The ability to learn and to establish new memories is essential to our daily existence and identity; enabling us to navigate through the world. A new study has captured an image for the first time of a mechanism, specifically protein translation, which underlies long-term memory formation.
Researchers have successfully edited the genome of human- induced pluripotent stem cells, making possible the future development of patient-specific stem cell therapies. They altered a gene responsible for causing the rare blood disease paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, or PNH, establishing for the first time a useful system to learn more about the disease.
Coral reefs throughout the Caribbean have been comprehensively “flattened” over the last 40 years, according to a disturbing new study.
Using an opioid drug to induce a hibernatory state in rats reduces the damage caused by an artificial stroke. Researchers have shown that those animals put into the chemical slumber suffered less behavioral dysfunctions after a period of cerebral artery blockage than control rats.
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Researchers have developed a software program that prescribes a regimen for avoiding jet lag using timed light exposure.
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A recent neuroimaging study reveals that the ability to distinguish true from false in our daily lives involves two distinct processes.
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Scientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity. A trove of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland tells the story, carrying its message across time to us today.
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In research that could lead to new approaches for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, scientists have found that suppressing a liver enzyme that induces glucose production helped diminish the symptoms of the disease in a rat model — reducing blood glucose concentrations, decreasing rates of glucose production in the liver, and improving insulin sensitivity. [...]
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Scientists are reporting a long-awaited advance toward making the workplace safer for more than one million machinists in the United States who may be exposed to disease-causing bacteria in contaminated metalworking fluids. Those fluids become airborne during machining of metal parts.
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Targeting children may be an effective use of limited supplies of flu vaccine, according to new research. The study suggests that, used to support other control measures, this could help control the spread of pandemics such as the current swine flu.
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