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Many neurological disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, are marked by impaired motor skills. In addition, growing evidence suggests there’s a link between some neurodegenerative diseases and body weight.
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2015
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and an international team of colleagues report that brain disorders that cause intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum behaviors may share common defects despite having different genetic causes.
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2015
What if a single vaccine could protect people from infection by many different viruses? That concept is a step closer to reality.
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2015
Nothing beats nature’s histones for tightly spooling DNA, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from trying to engineer something better—at least for selected purposes.
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2015
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) can become any type of cell in the adult body, offering great potential in disease modeling, drug discovery and creating replacement cells for conditions ranging from cardiovascular to Alzheimer's disease.