Brain/Neuroscience
Synthetic tissue transmits electrical signals, like neurons
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers at the University ...
Zika complications may go beyond microcephaly, researchers fear
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Top Zika investigators now ...
Being a vegetarian can kill you? How the press mashed a genetics story
Being a vegetarian won't kill you: What happens when the media confuse a hypothesis with an outcome ...
Aromatherapy may benefit anxiety symptoms, influenza
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A wildly underrated member ...
Little-known degenerative disease gradually degrades language skills
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When I first start ...
New brain scanner detects neural magnetic field
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Measuring the activity of ...
Proposed fetal stem cell research bans would slow progress against Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A protein that helps ...
One mouse’s brain provided largest neural network yet mapped
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Once upon a time, there ...
Electrical shocks to brain boost learning, improve depression symptoms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We might finally be ...
Controversial test claims to gauge autism risk from placenta
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new test claims ...
First patient to undergo optogenetic therapy hopes to restore sight
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A blind woman in ...
Our microbiome: Separating hype from health
What impact does our microbiome have on our health? A lot claim many, but we have a long way to ...
Do certain microbes raise Alzheimer’s risk? Researchers debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have long puzzled ...
Scientist search brain for origins of risk-taking
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At Stanford University, a ...
China’s five-year plan aims for big advances in neuroscience, stem cell research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. From a slowing economy ...
Boy’s death highlights need for reform, more oversight in medical genetics
A lab mischaracterizes a rare genetic mutation and a boy dies. The boy's case shows how our standards for reporting ...
Zika, microcephaly link: What’s the evidence, and what’s still unknown?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Before October 2015, the ...
Voting genes: Are political views inherited?
There are dozens of studies showing correlations between genes political attitudes, but the fact is the genetic information in our ...
How will human germline modification drive future of reproduction?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Human germline engineering (HGE) ...
Extinct humans live on in our DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Denisovan DNA lives on ...
Why do disease outbreaks inspire conspiracy theories?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The story of the ...
Alzheimer’s may be problem of accessing memories, not of storing memories
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers at MIT may ...
Exciting headlines aside, knowledge can’t be ‘uploaded’ into brain
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to a spectacularly ...
Cellular clock may help improve cancer treatment, forensic science
Scientists have found that your cells keeps track of aging. This clock may have important implications for how we treat ...
Meat eating may have driven evolution of tool use
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists recently turned Harvard’s ...
Efficient thinking comes from learning what to ignore
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Let’s begin with a ...
Stem cell research crucial for understanding Zika, fetal brain damage link
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Modern biology needs tools ...