Sentences with phrase «offered by the neurons»

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As well as offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by rerouting signals around damaged neurons.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

Fortunately, the vast majority of the grafted neurons in all three patients were free of Lewy bodies, which suggests that grafts may still offer some benefit even if they start to become affected by the disease.

By simulating electrical brain activity and relating the behavior of single neurons to brain waves, the researchers aim to bridge this gap, opening the way to better tools for diagnosing mental disorders, and on a deeper level, offering a better understanding of ourselves.

While retroviruses generally only infect dividing cells (because their access to the host genome is thought to rely on the breakdown of the nuclear envelope that occurs in mitosis [Roe et al., 1993]-RRB-, lentiviruses are a genus of the retroviral family that can infect non-dividing cells (possibly through the use of nuclear localization signals by the viral components [Bukrinsky et al., 1992]-RRB-, and thus, offer an advantage when transducing certain cell types that exhibit limited cell division (e.g., neurons).

The vital importance of empathy is stressed, drawing attention to the insights offered by neuroimaging studies and the role of mirror neurons in social cognition.