Investigators finally discovered the central switch that causes healthy brain cells to be converted into diseases, epileptic ones. The finding could provide a new target for future treatments, that would prevent the development of the disease in the first place. The work, carried out by researchers in the United Stat... |
28 June 2011
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In a new study conducted on antidepressants and their effect on the human body, researchers from the United States were able to identify a new mechanism through which chemicals in drugs might be acting on the human brain, moods and so on. In order to conduct the research, scientists used a simple cell-based fluoresce... |
8 February 2011
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Biologists and naturalists have been wondering for a long time why precisely snakes are capable of discovering prey in the dark, and then attack it very precisely, seemingly without effort. Some experts have hypothesized that the trait is based on the creatures' ability to see some of the infrared wavelengths of... |
15 March 2010
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A group of American researchers from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) has recently made huge progress in understanding how vision in higher animals, including humans, developed. The experts looked at a member of an ancient group of sea creatures, called the hydra, in order to gain some more insigh... |
13 March 2010
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Our cells' ability to move ions through their membranes and to only allow for a certain type of ions either in or out is arguably one of the most important set of traits it has. In charge of letting various chemicals through are structures inside the membrane known as ion channels, which display a property calle... |
27 November 2009
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A new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine comes to shed some doubts on the classic model of how the ear transforms sound into vibrations. Devised decades ago, the model has held bravely to criticism for many years, but it would seem that the recent study has finally managed to bring reasonable qu... |
28 April 2009
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