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None of us would get on a plane that had its parts changed in mid-air, says Eve Marder, who has spent her career probing a very specific cluster of crustacean nerve cells. Yet we are all walking around undergoing a constant turnover of cellular parts, and so are the lobsters and crabs Marder studies.
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COVID-19: Changing the way we do research
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Feb
9

Social contact-seeking behavior and loneliness in the brain
Levels of the peptide amylin in the brain are related to loneliness; activating amylin neurons in the MPOA drives isolated mice to seek social contact. Continue!
Feb
4

New treatment assembles cancer drug inside the body
Cancer drugs assembled inside the body on cancer cells should reduce harmful side effects to other tissue. Continue!
Jan
27

New lab-grown retinal sheets almost ready for clinical trials
A new retinal transplant technique works by preventing bipolar cells from maturing in lab-grown retinal sheets. Continue!
Jan
17

The free-energy principle explains neural network behavior
Jan
13

How does gravity affect antimatter?
Dec
23

Super-thin wearable electronics just got more flexible
A method for making super-flexible and ultra-thin wearable electronics uses water-vapor plasma to create gold-gold bonds. Continue!