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First human study targets cortical neurons in the brain to improve motor function.

The spinal cord is very sensitive to injury, however, unlike other parts of the body, the spinal cord does not have the ability to repair itself when damaged. A spinal
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Study finds small colony of neurons modulate amount of insulin the pancreas produces.

The brain is the key regulator of appetite, body weight and metabolism. Specifically, there is a small group of hypothalamus neurons, named the Proopiomelanocortin neurons (POMC), which can detect and
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Neuroimaging connects stress-associated brain activity to cardiovascular disease in humans.

Stress is the feeling of being under mental or emotional pressure, where a person may feel unable to cope. How much stress a person experiences and how they react to
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Somatosensory neuron receptors used to form brown fat, has implications for diabetes and obesity.

Brown fat has long been investigated as a treatment for obesity and type 2 diabetes due to the fact it burns energy faster than white fat, which hoards it, leading
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Previously unknown type of regenerating insulin-producing cell discovered.

Type I diabetes is a disease with two parts, firstly, the beta cells are killed by the body’s own immune system, and then they fail to regenerate. Without these cells,
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Researchers successfully eliminate neurons outside the brain to trigger obesity.

Specific cell ablation is an important tool for selectively destroying one or multiple cells in a given organism. For example, a laser beam or a controllable gene can be used
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Brain circuit that supports smoking cessation identified.

It is known that smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death globally. Diseases related to tobacco smoking have been shown to kill approximately half of long-term smokers
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Genetically-coded brain circuits switch feeding and drinking behaviours on and off in mice.

Genetically-coded brain circuits can switch feeding and drinking behaviours on and off in mice.
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Neurons shown to regulate reproduction in fruit flies during infection.

It is known that all living organisms adapt their behaviour in response to infection, however, the mechanisms behind this are less understood. Recent studies in fruit flies have begun to
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Autonomous nanomachines perform biologic functions in live cells in world’s first.

Nanomachines made from synthetic DNA motors have the potential to mimic natural protein motors in cells, however, the operation of synthetic DNA motors in living cells has not yet been
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