Sentences with phrase «cells in our brains work»

Nerve cells in our brains work together in harmony to store and retrieve short - term memory, and are not solo artists as previously thought, Western - led brain research has determined.

Adam Sachs (left) and Julio Martinez - Trujillo (right) have discovered that nerve cells in the brain work together to store and retrieve short - term memory.

Epilepsy is a nervous system disorder in which the nerve cells in the brain work abnormally, causing seizures.

Not exact matches

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

Also in San Diego, Ceregene is developing a treatment for decaying brain cells that works via an injection of a harmless virus infused with a protein that keeps such cells functional.

Do you have even 3 working brain cells in your head???? You don't know # $ & %.

... as in, after one's brain cells quit working there is nothing to say about it?

If the azzhole known as Pope - a-Dope had a working brain cell, he would stay home and help ease tensions in the middle east.

We all know that in summer is a tough time to keep the brain cells working.

This only works in about a tenth of cells, and hardly at all in non-dividing cells like brain cells.

«For example, brain enhancers will not typically work in heart cells, which means that you must test your enhancer sequence in the correct cell type,» Dickel says.

Cells inside the brains contract, while cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organCells inside the brains contract, while cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organcells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organoids.

«We now know much more about how the cells work and how they best become integrated into the circuits in the brain.»

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

Svendsen is more optimistic about his team's work involving human tests of a novel stem cell approach to treat ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease in which cells that transmit messages from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles wither or die.

Because of the strong association between hippocampal cell growth and exercise in models, previous work on exercise and the brain has not focused on the entorhinal cortex, despite its critical role in learning and memory until now.

Work on animals has suggested that ultrasounds can in fact interfere with fetal brain development, derailing the normal movements of cells that populate the brain.

Gene switches have been identified that work in specific brain areas, potentially enabling targeted treatment of unhealthy cells.

And many other questions still need to be answered: Does this work in directly in human brain cells?

The discovery of a new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in the brain communicate with each other to regulate our learning and long - term memory could have major benefits to understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy and dementia.

Prof. Hasan's group show that a process called SOCE (Store Operated Calcium Entry) which works to maintain calcium levels in cells could also play a role in maintaining the levels of dopamine, a vital neurotransmitter in the brain.

Working in Morrison's Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory at Columbia Engineering, the team developed a blast injury model using a shock tube and custom - designed sample receiver to simulate a primary blast event and applied it to an isolated, living model of the BBB that consisted of brain endothelial cells.

In previous work, scientists have shifted these primordial neural crest cells around the embryo's brain, causing beaklike bulges to grow out of the bird's neck.

Working together, Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers and neurosurgeons report that they have created tiny, biodegradable «nanoparticles» able to carry DNA to brain cancer cells in mice.

But this came from work in my laboratory and others that suggested that nerve cells in affected regions of the Alzheimer brain looked like they were trying to divide.

Working with researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the University of California, San Francisco, Hynes and Rosenthal then tried adding different concentrations of Sonic hedgehog to cultured brain cells.

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

Working primarily with mice, senior author and University of Virginia neuroscience professor Jonathan Kipnis and his group identified a hitherto undetected network of lymphatic vessels in the meninges — the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord — that shuttle fluid and immune cells from the cerebrospinal fluid to the deep cervical lymph nodes in the neck.

Eroglu's earlier work has shown that thrombospondins are released by brain cells called astrocytes and boost new synapse formation between neurons in the brain.

Led by Matthew P. Anderson, MD, PhD, Director of Neuropathology at BIDMC, the scientists determined how a gene linked to one common form of autism works in a specific population of brain cells to impair sociability.

They then put the dishes into special chambers called bioreactors that keep them warm and in gentle motion reminiscent of a womb, encouraging the cells to form blobs with working neurons and many other features of a full - size human brain.

They are critical in countless ways to the working of cells throughout the body, including the brain.

The switch works by regulating the activity of a handful of sleep - promoting nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain.

In both muscle and the brain, GDF11 appears to work in part by restoring the function of stem cellIn both muscle and the brain, GDF11 appears to work in part by restoring the function of stem cellin part by restoring the function of stem cells.

Working with mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have contributed significant new evidence to support the idea that high doses of cocaine kill brain cells by triggering overactive autophagy, a process in which cells literally digest their own insides.

«We found that approximately 40 % of the brain cells that process visual signals appear to receive information from mRGCs,» says Brown, whose team reports its work today in PLoS Biology.

But neither brain scans nor clinical studies of patients with implanted electrodes explained exactly how the cells in these patches work.

But neither data from brain scanners — functional magnetic resonance imaging — nor clinical studies of patients with implanted electrodes have explained exactly how the cells in these face patches work.

The drug works by stopping toxic ion flow in the brain that is known to trigger nerve cell death.

Though a range of developmental scenarios in multiple brain regions is surely at work in ASDs, the researchers said the ability to place these specific genetic mutations in one specific set of cells — among hundreds of cell types in the brain, and at a specific point in human development — is a critical step in beginning to understand how autism comes about.

«We don't know if this will work in humans, but it's exciting to have a solid new lead on how this condition kills brain cells.»

Suspecting that the disease works differently in humans, whose brains are much bigger and more complex than those of lab animals, Brivanlou, along with research associates Albert Ruzo and Gist Croft, developed a cell - based human system for their research.

Some scientists still hold that the magnetic sensing cells will be found in the beak, or in birds» eyes, but working backward from the brain will help sort it out, says Dickman.

They are thought to work by blocking the reabsorption of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain, leaving more of it available to help brain cells send and receive chemical signals, thereby boosting mood.

«Secondary benefits of this trial include the significant improvement in clinical care for children with sickle cell disease at each of the 29 sites because each location had a designated hematologist, neurologist, neuroradiologist and psychologist working as a team to identify and decrease further injury to the brain in this vulnerable population.»

Understanding how networks of cells in circuits work together to give rise to behaviors, thoughts, and emotions requires new technology, he said, and optogenetics is starting to provide new approaches for mapping and repairing the brain.

His reputation was cinched when Stephen Colbert, on Comedy Central's Colbert Report, asked Pinker to explain how the brain works in exactly five words, and he replied, «Brain cells fire in patterns.&rbrain works in exactly five words, and he replied, «Brain cells fire in patterns.&rBrain cells fire in patterns.»

Parkinson's disease occurs precisely because the group of nerve cells in the brain that produce dopamine stop working.

The work, which appears in the journal Cell, focuses on the regulation of «neuronal plasticity» — changes in neuronal structure — and its function in the brain.

And, while the current work only tested its effectiveness in creating brain cells, he suspects a similar method will let researchers create aged heart and liver cells as well.