A UCL-led research team has opened and closed the blood-nerve barrier for the first time and used it to deliver drugs to target tissues.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 8, 2023
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The imbalance between dietary intake and output that results from metabolic disorders like obesity disrupts energy homeostasis. Despite significant advances in understanding the pathogenesis of these metabolic disorders, ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 1, 2023
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The nervous system is essential for coordinating the organismal stress response. Neurons with mitochondrial stresses could release signals and communicate with the peripheral tissues to activate the organismal-wide mitochondrial ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2022
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Centipedes not only walk on land but also swim in water.
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2019
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Researchers studying the behavior and neuroscience of octopuses have long suspected that the animals' arms may have minds of their own.
Astrobiology
Jun 25, 2019
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Inside the body, disease and injury can leave behind quite the mess—a scattering of cellular debris, like bits of broken glass, rubber and steel left behind in a car accident.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 4, 2019
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New research has shed light on the way in which our nerves conduct electrical signals around our bodies. The structure of myelin, the layer of insulating fat surrounding nerve cells of vertebrates, has now been analysed in ...
Biochemistry
Dec 10, 2014
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(Phys.org)—During the early developmental stages of vertebrates—animals that have a backbone and spinal column, including humans—cells undergo extensive rearrangements, and some cells migrate over large distances to ...
Biotechnology
Nov 1, 2012
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Against the backdrop of the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have made an important new discovery regarding a specific gene that plays ...
Biochemistry
Nov 23, 2011
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Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and their collaborators found that expression of a gene called SOX2 maintains the potential for neural crest stem cells to become neurons in the peripheral nervous ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 5, 2011
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