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Eliminating Useless Information Important to Learning, Making New Memories
January 9, 2013 — As we age, it just may be the ability to filter and eliminate old information -- rather than take in the new stuff -- that makes it harder to learn, scientists ... > full story -
New Stem Cell Approach for Blindness Successful in Mice
January 7, 2013 — Blind mice can see again, after researchers transplanted developing cells into their eyes and found they could re-form the entire light-sensitive layer of the ... > full story -
Shifting the Balance Between Good Fat and Bad Fat
January 4, 2013 — Researchers have a new theory about what causes the body to store more fat and burn less energy in obesity -- a protein called p62. According to a new study, when p62 is missing in fat, the body's ... > full story -
Staphylococcus Aureus: Why It Just Gets Up Your Nose
December 27, 2012 — Researchers have identified a mechanism by which the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus colonizes our nasal passages. The study shows for the first time that a protein located on the bacterial surface ... > full story -
Sync to Grow: Oscillation of Gene Activity May Underlie How Embryos Grow in Proportion
December 20, 2012 — Researchers are one step closer to understanding how embryos develop and grow while always keeping the same proportions between their various parts. Their findings, published today in Nature, reveal ... > full story -
Transplanted Neural Stem Cells Treat Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Mouse Model
December 19, 2012 — Transplanting neural stem cells into an ALS mouse model slows disease progression and prolongs survival. The transplanted neural stem cells changed the host environment for the better and protected ... > full story -
Neurons Die in Alzheimer's Because of Faulty Cell Cycle Control Before Plaques and Tangles Appear
December 17, 2012 — The two infamous proteins, amyloid-beta and tau, that characterize advanced Alzheimer's disease, start healthy neurons on road to cell death long before appearance of deadly plaques and tangles by ... > full story -
Uncovering a Flaw in Drug Testing for Chronic Anxiety Disorder
December 13, 2012 — Trials for experimental drugs are often done on laboratory mice because of their genetic similarity to humans. But now a study has found that, when it comes to chronic neurological disorders, ... > full story -
Mouse Brain Cells Activated, Reactivated in Learning and Memory
December 13, 2012 — Memories are made of this, the song says. Now neuroscientists have for the first time shown individual mouse brain cells being switched on during learning and later reactivated during memory ... > full story -
From Fish to Human: Research Reveals How Fins Became Legs
December 10, 2012 — Vertebrates' transition to living on land, instead of only in water, represented a major event in the history of life. Now, researchers provide new evidence that the development of hands and feet ... > full story
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