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Brain cell
hideBrain cell is a generic term for the neurons and glial cells. Neurons are nerve cells that process and transmit information through the nervous system. Glial cells provide support, protection, and nutrition to the neurons. Other cells in the brain include epithelial cells that make up the lining of the blood vessels.
Brain cells are commonly thought to remain in the beginning stage of interphase of cell reproduction for their life, and never divide, and instead develop by forming new synapses with other neurons. However, a landmark study in 1998 by researchers from Sweden and the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, showed for the first time that some brain cells in mature humans may regenerate under certain circumstances.
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News tagged with brain cells
Statins have unexpected effect on pool of powerful brain cells
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells important to brain health as we age, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found. The new findings shed ...
Brain on a chip?
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype 'brain on a chip' is ...
Vitamin B3 reduces Alzheimer's symptoms, lesions
Nov 04, 2008 |
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An over-the-counter vitamin in high doses prevented memory loss in mice with Alzheimer's disease, and UC Irvine scientists now are conducting a clinical trial to determine its effect in humans.
Researchers discover the first-ever link between intelligence and curiosity
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from University of Toronto and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital have discovered a molecular link between intelligence and curiosity, which may lead to the development ...
You can control your Marilyn Monroe neuron
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a scientific first, researchers have been able to demonstrate the ability of humans to control the activity of individual brain cells.
Ageing Brains Show Great Promise for Rejuvenation
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ neuroscientists have, for the first time, been able to demonstrate that moderate exercise significantly increases the number of neural stem cells in the ageing brain.
This is your grid on brains
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that ...
Researchers Discover Tiny Cellular Antennae Trigger Neural Stem Cells
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Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University scientists today reported evidence suggesting that the tiny cilia found on brain cells of mammals, thought to be vestiges of a primeval past, actually play a critical role ...
A Single Neuron Can Change the Activity of the Whole Brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The pulsing of a single neuron can switch a brain’s waves from the equivalent of a big ocean swell to ripples on a pond, according to new research from Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator ...
New research reports new method to protect brain cells from diseases like Alzheimer's
Aug 20, 2008 |
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New research led by Chu Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, provides evidence that one of the only naturally occurring fatty acids in the brain that has the ability to ...
On the move: 'Jumping genes' create diversity in human brain cells
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Rather than sticking to a single DNA script, human brain cells harbor astonishing genomic variability, according to scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The findings, to be published in ...
Biophysicists create new model for protein-cholesterol interactions in brain and muscle tissue
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have used 3,200 computer processors and long-established data on cholesterol's role in the function of proteins to clarify the mysterious interaction between ...
One step closer to an artificial nerve cell
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University (Sweden) are well on the way to creating the first artificial nerve cell that can communicate specifically with nerve cells in the body using neurotransmitters. ...
Smart rat 'Hobbie-J' produced by over-expressing a gene that helps brain cells communicate
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Over-expressing a gene that lets brain cells communicate just a fraction of a second longer makes a smarter rat, report researchers from the Medical College of Georgia and East China Normal University.
100 reasons to change the way we think about genetics
May 18, 2009 |
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For years, genes have been considered the one and only way biological traits could be passed down through generations of organisms. Not anymore.
