Press release Thursday, March 25, 2021 What Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered specific regions within the DNA of neurons that accumulate certain types of damage (called single-stranded …
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What do humans have that separates us from non-human primates, our closest living relatives? One of the biggest differentiators, scientifically speaking, is the size of our much larger brains, and now, we’ve …
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The skin, the largest organ of the human body, envelops us from head to toe, allowing us to touch, feel and interact with the outside world. But there is a part of …
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Damage to the retina is the leading cause of blindness in humans, affecting millions of people worldwide. Unfortunately, the retina is one of the few tissues that we humans cannot get back. …
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Herculaneum, as it appears today. The image: Pier Paolo Petron About 2,000 years ago the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius is famous for saving many of its victims in the ashes of …
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Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us, sometimes we trick them. Optical illusions have lured neuroscientists for decades, but these false messages have probably lasted far longer than we have been reading …
Read More »A mechanical way of stimulating neurons
In addition to responding to electrical and chemical stimuli, many of the body’s nerve cells can also respond to mechanical effects such as pressure or vibration. But these reactions have been more …
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