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A chemotherapy drug used to treat brain cancer may increase vulnerability to depression by stopping new brain cells from growing, according to a new King's College London study out today in Translational Psychiatry.

Admittedly, crayfish aren't known for their grey matter, but that might be about to change: they can grow new brain cells from blood.

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Science also requires an influx of new, educated young scientists, and poisoning American children's brains through miseducation has resulted in cell and molecular biologists being imported from Asia.

The researchers from Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute found that even the oldest brains they studied produced new brain celNew York State Psychiatric Institute found that even the oldest brains they studied produced new brain celnew brain cells.

In your book The Emperor's New Mind, you posited that consciousness emerges from quantum physical actions within the cells of the brain.

Researchers at the Humboldt and Charité Universities in Berlin, led by Dr Julie Seibt from the University of Surrey, used cutting edge techniques to record activity in a particular region of brain cells that is responsible for holding new information — the dendrites.

«By learning how tau spreads, we may be able to stop it from jumping from neuron to neuron,» said Karen Duff, PhD, professor in the department of pathology and cell biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) and professor of psychiatry (at New York State Psychiatric Institute.)

In the new study, the team focused on neurons called amacrine cells and horizontal cells, which have a known role in «preprocessing» — or adjusting — electrical signals transmitted to the brain from the photoreceptors after they have been stimulated by light photons.

Even short - term blockages of this kind can lead to remarkable changes in the auditory system, altering the behavior and structure of nerve cells that relay information from the ear to the brain, according to a new University at Buffalo study.

Long - term brain damage caused by stroke could be reduced by saving cells called pericytes that control blood flow in capillaries, reports a new study led by scientists from UCL (University College London).

A new mouse study shows that triggering a gene inside astrocytes activates the star - shaped cells and may improve the brain's ability to heal from a range of debilitating conditions, from stroke to concussions and spine injuries.

The scientists used the new indexing method on several human cell lines and from a mouse brain to reveal the methylome of 3,282 single cells.

The study could help identify people who would most benefit from new drugs designed to save brain cells, but more research is necessary to determine if the genetic mutations are implicated in disease.

Schurink's new µSEA (micro sieve electrode array) has been tested with living cells, from the brains of laboratory rats.

Salk scientists developed a new technique to grow aged brain cells from patients» skin.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden recently discovered a new mechanism governing brain stem cell proliferatCell Biology and Genetics in Dresden recently discovered a new mechanism governing brain stem cell proliferatcell proliferation.

Astrocytes, the supporting cells of the brain, could play a significant role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

When stem cells from the old brain are cultured with signals of a young choroid plexus they can divide and form new neurons (red).

Easton, who looks at materials used in fuel cell electrodes and brain sensors, is already communicating with a new hire in the physics program about starting up a collaboration ---- something he might have shied away from, he says, at another institution.

The great New York Yankees first baseman was diagnosed with ALS in 1939 and died two years later from the progressive neuromuscular disorder, which attacks nerve cells that lead from the brain and the spinal cord to muscles throughout the body.

Overstreet - Wadiche and UAB colleagues posed a basic question: Since the number of neurons in the dentate gyrus increases by neurogenesis while the number of neurons in the cortex remains the same, does the brain create additional synapses from the cortical neurons to the new granule cells, or do some cortical neurons transfer their connections from mature granule cells to the new granule cells?

In their new Science paper, the researchers analyzed gene expression in single cells across key developmental time points and from different regions of the brain.

Another provocative observation from the new study was that transient gene expression events during brain development set up broad distinctions in neural fate between cells in different areas in the cerebral cortex.

In a new study, Yale Cancer Center researchers identified a novel genetic defect that prevents brain tumor cells from repairing damaged DNA.

That feeling may be traced to the firing of newly identified «anxiety» cells deep inside your brain, according to new research from neuroscientists at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

To regain function, connections from the brain to the spinal cord must regrow, different types of immune cells have to clear the injury site, and stem cells in the spinal cord need to generate new nerve cells, which then connect to the muscles.

The safe use of a stem - cell - based therapy against brain metastasis would require preventing the engineered cells from persisting within the brain, where they could affect normal tissue and possibly give rise to new tumors.

«From skin to brain: Stem cells without genetic modification: Study yields neural crest cells from adult skin cells, and could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's and other brain illnesses.&raFrom skin to brain: Stem cells without genetic modification: Study yields neural crest cells from adult skin cells, and could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's and other brain illnesses.&rafrom adult skin cells, and could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's and other brain illnesses.»

Whitmer said one theory stemming from animal research is that metformin may play a role in the development of new brain cells (neurogenesis).

Scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered how HIV / AIDS disrupts the normal replication of stem cells in the adult brain, preventing new nerve cells from forming.

In its new study, Obokata's team bathed blood, skin, brain, muscle, fat, bone marrow, lung and liver cells from newborn mice in an acid solution.

July 21, 2016 Antibiotic treatment weakens progression of Alzheimer's disease through changes in the gut microbiome Long - term treatment with broad spectrum antibiotics decreased levels of amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, and activated inflammatory microglial cells in the brains of mice in a new study by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago.

After a head injury, the protective lining around the brain heals with help from two waves of immune cells, according to a new US study in mice.

Long - term treatment with broad spectrum antibiotics decreased levels of amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, and activated inflammatory microglial cells in the brains of mice in a new study by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago.

We are using these new tools to image the structural features of individual cells, such as the cell body and the axons of the cells, which are long fibers that extend from each neuron, together forming the optic nerve that transmits visual information to the brain.

In 2010, Kriegstein's lab discovered a new type of neural stem cell in the human brain, which they dubbed outer radial glia (oRGs) because these cells reside farther away from the nurturing ventricles, in an outer layer of the subventricular zone (oSVZ).

From MIT Tech Review: «A new method for growing human brain cells could unlock the mysteries of dementia, mental illness, and other neurological disorders.»

That feeling may be traced to the firing of newly identified «anxiety» cells deep inside your brain, according to new research from neuroscientists at UC San Francisco and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), published online Jan. 31, 2018, in Neuron.

The enzyme that degrades these chains is called heparanase, and the researchers found that medulloblastoma cells, as well as cells from other childhood brain tumours, need this enzyme, which may suggest new ways to treat the tumor.

The team used genetically engineered mice to study the effects of different human apoE variants on the maturation of neural stem cells or progenitor cells, from which new neurons develop in the adult brain.

We are using a new technique, called single cell RNA sequencing, to isolate thousands of single neurons from human brain tissue, study all the genes that are expressed in each individual cell, and make cell - to - cell comparisons between normal, early stage and late stage AD.

The mini brains are derived from human stem cells thus, may be used instead of animal models to test new drugs, revolutionizing the way lab experiments work.

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital are leveraging these new technologies to study the effects of DISC1 mutations in cerebral organoids - «mini brains» - cultured from human stem cells.

New work in brain diseases like Alzheimer's suggests that brain cells called neurons might be «catching» the sickness from their neighbors.

Additionally, the insights gained from this research may also help scientists develop new drugs that are more selective to a particular region or type of brain cell.

In a study published in the journal Neuron, researchers at the Gladstone Institutes reveal how tau disrupts the ability of brain cells to strengthen connections with other brain cells, preventing new memories from forming.

In general, old and young brains were capable of making the same number of new neurons from more primitive «progenitor» cells in the hippocampus.

Thanks to recent technological developments, new insights into brain health, and some creative thinking, two Gladstone scientists are embarking on research to replace lost or malfunctioning brain cells with new ones created from stem cells.

Against common wisdom even the adult and aging brain can generate new neurons from a population of resident stem cells but it does so only in two privileged regions and on a minute scale.

For more than a century, scientists thought that glial cells were responsible for scar formation; now, however, a paper published in Science shows that spinal cord scar tissue largely derives from a completely unexpected type of cell called a pericyte, opening new opportunities for the treatment of damaged nerve tissue.Lesions to the brain or spinal cord rarely heal fully, which leads to permanent functional impairment.