Brain stars hold our memories
In this study, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine changed the way we understand memory.
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Neurons lead the way in the development of astrocytes
Neurons trigger a complex pattern of events, some of them unexpected, that direct astrocyte development in a region-specific manner.
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Brain sphingolipid metabolism is closely involved in Gaucher disease
Disruption of sphingolipid metabolism led to neurodegeneration in animal models, revealing a new molecular path to Gaucher’s disease.
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In a cell-eat-cell world calcium ions regulate exposure of ‘eat-me’ signal in necrotic cells
New insights into the process of necrosis suggest that modulating the ‘eat-me’ signal may help reduce the toxic effects of cell death.
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The tree of cortical cell types describes the diversity of neurons in the brain
This research provides one of the most complete characterizations of the diversity of neural types in the brain so far.
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Lunatic Fringe gene and the renewable brain
The discovery that the brain can generate new cells – about 700 new neurons each day – has triggered investigations to uncover how this process
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The underappreciated astrocyte; a vital link between brain tumors and epileptic seizures
The brain has billions of cells of which only 30 percent are neurons. Astrocytes are the predominant cell type of the remaining 70 percent. Surprisingly,
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