brain

Feb 25, 2021

Beam adds to drug delivery stable with USD 120 Million GuideTx buy Beam Therapeutics has taken over a startup whose technology could proffer the biotech’s genetic medicines to more tissues in the body, widening the potential to approach more diseases. Beam announced that it paid USD 120 million upfront to acq...

Dec 26, 2018

Neuroscientists have garnered more evidence for the hypothesis regarding sticky proteins, which is a symbol of neurodegenerative diseases. This can be transferred between people under particular conditions and also cause new damage in a brain of recipient. Their research does not hint that disorders such as Alz...

Dec 12, 2018

Chinese scientist - He Jiankui’s extraordinary claim regarding making the first babies — twin girls — with edited genomes astonished the world. Among researchers’ principal concerns are the potential effects of the genetic alterations on the health of girls. He, a genome-editing researcher at the Southern University...

Nov 26, 2018

Do you often sleep during work? Well, if you do so, you might proudly claim yourself to be an efficient and hard worker as work stress led you to doze off. Or, you might also advise others to do the same as the practice of sleeping at workplaces for short intervals, also called as power naps, is widely believed to r...

Sep 01, 2016

There has been a shocking revelation in a report published in Science Translational Medicine by Bengt Westermark, a tumour biologist at Uppsala, who reports that a cell line widely used to study brain cancer does not match the cells used to create the line nearly 50 years ago, or the tumour supposed to be its source...