The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) reports its latest AI model aimed at helping researchers better understand how cells behave by focusing on the key networks that control cell behavior, making ...

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The human brain is comprised of two main types of cells, known as neurons and glia. The first are responsible for ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

New research from Anthropic shows that when you give AI systems email access and threaten to shut them down, they don’t just ...

Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness ...

D bioprinted nerve tissues offer new hope for ALS drug testing. Uppsala team creates motor neuron organoids from patient cells.

The therapeutic molecules self-assemble into nanofibers, which bond to the neuron-killing proteins. Now trapped, the toxic proteins can no longer enter neurons and instead harmlessly degrade.

Labeled micrographs of human neurons exposed to amyloid-beta proteins and either left untreated (left) or treated with the new nanotherapy developed at Northwestern (right). Dead neurons are ...

May 14, 2025 Sugar-coated nanotherapy dramatically improves neuron survival in Alzheimer's model A plant-based peptide therapy forms nanofibers that trap toxic proteins linked to neurodegeneration, ...

Improving neuron survival To assess the therapeutic potential of the new approach, the scientists conducted laboratory tests using human neurons derived from stem cells. The results showed the ...

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