Brain/Neuroscience
Adult brain constantly rearranges itself in response to smell
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists from the Institut ...
Rhesus macaques provide scientists with model to study Zika, could lead to vaccine, treatments
Our fight against the Zika virus may have gotten a big lift with the announcement of a working primate model ...
Robots and humans focus on different things, indicating neural gap
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers at Facebook and ...
Genetic evidence may direct Alzheimer’s research away from amyloid beta as cause
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Previous research has revolved ...
Can silencing of gene for ‘love hormone’ reduce sociability?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A team of researchers ...
CRISPR creates mini-organs for disease testing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Traditionally, gene therapy efforts ...
What can sequencing da Vinci’s genome teach us about genius?
A team of scientists wants to sequence Leonardo da Vinci’s genome using DNA taken from his works of art and ...
Clinical trials suffer from “black hole of medical ethics”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A decade after Jean ...
After 150 years, Mendelian genetics remain as important as ever
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mendel and the peas ...
Genes linked to learning second language
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While many people can ...
Healthy and elderly? Genes for cognitive function matter more than those for longevity
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Most studies about disease ...
Sleep vital for learning, memory and healthy heart-rate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sleep is known to ...
Where Clinton and Trump stand on biotechnology and medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Hillary Clinton announced ...
How our brains respond to mass shootings
Hollywood and the US government tend to share unrealistic scenarios for avoiding mass shootings. Neither accounts for how our brains ...
Do all brains interpret music the same way?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Last night, as I was ...
Why men like women’s curves: How big a role has evolution played?
Evidence has been building in support of the belief that sexual attraction is hardwired, linked to evolution. But the case ...
Scientists celebrate 100th anniversary of DNA double helix discovery
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Francis Crick was ...
Scientists create human-pig embryo to harvest human organs for use in transplants
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers at the University ...
Childhood experiences have long-lasting impact on brain
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. New findings in neuroscience, ...
Did early births lead to smarter humans?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Due to the size ...
Prestigious neuroscience prize awarded to scientists who discovered brain’s plasticity
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Three neuroscientists whose research ...
Is it incorrect to consider brain akin to computer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The human brain contains ...
Stem cell therapy returns movement to stroke patients
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. People once dependent on ...
Cell phone radiation study doesn’t prove cancer link
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently the National Toxicology Program ...
Media hype aside, do cell phones really cause cancer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some bracing headlines have been ...
Olympic gold medalist hesitant to attend Rio training camp due to Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Jessica Ennis-Hill is considering ...
Why did humans evolve intelligence?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Human intelligence is a biological ...
