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On the long road to treating Huntington’s genetic stutter, scientists return to overlooked clues

30.11.2022

In the spring of 1981, a geneticist from Indianapolis and a neurologist from Chicago got in a car and for three days they crisscrossed the yellowing cornfields of Iowa. Every …

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Brains of Black Americans age faster, study finds, with racial stressors a likely factor

14.11.2022

The brains of Black adults in the U.S. age more quickly than those of white and Hispanic adults, showing features linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias as early as …

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Brain implants that translate paralyzed patients’ thoughts into speech creep closer to reality

08.11.2022

In 2003, Pancho’s life changed forever. That’s when a car crash sent the 20-year-old farm worker into emergency surgery to repair damage to his stomach. The operation went well, but …

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In the Lab

Faster brain imaging technique seems to overcome limitations of current MRI scans

13.10.2022

Research often proceeds in a logical progression, new studies building upon a detailed understanding of the underlying processes revealed by earlier work. But a new brain imaging technique that can …

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In the Lab

Human neurons implanted in a rodent’s brain lead a rat to water — and make it drink

12.10.2022

The scientist flicked on a laser, filling the rat’s brain with blue light. The rodent, true to its past two weeks of training, scampered across its glass box to a …

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Biotech

FDA approves ALS drug from Amylyx, giving patients a much-needed treatment option

30.09.2022

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new medicine for ALS from Amylyx Pharmaceuticals on Thursday, providing a desperately-needed new treatment option for a devastating disease. The medicine, to be …

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In the Lab

NIH launches the next stage of its ‘human genome project’ for the brain

22.09.2022

The National Institutes of Health on Thursday announced more than $600 million in fresh funding for an expansive and ongoing push to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, bankrolling …

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Zapping the brain with electricity shown to boost older people’s short- and long-term memory

22.08.2022

Sending weak electrical current into the brain for 20 minutes a day for four days in a row reversed declines in working and long-term memory that come with aging, scientists …

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First Opinion

Opinion: As a pediatric cancer researcher, I admired the FDA. Then I got ALS

16.08.2022

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), as I have unfortunately come to learn, is a terrible disease with no cure. Some exciting treatments are on the horizon, but the Food and Drug …

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