A team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National University Health System (NUHS) has developed a self-inflating
Month: April 2019
Growing up in poverty increases diagnoses of psychosis-spectrum mental illnesses
Growing up in impoverished urban neighborhoods more than doubles your chances over the average person of developing a psychosis-spectrum disorder
ADC Therapeutics and Adagene Announce License Agreement
ADC Therapeutics, an oncology drug discovery and development company that specializes in the development of proprietary antibody drug conjugates (ADCs),
Targeting how fungi ‘taste’ wheat could be key to developing control
Exploring how a hazardous fungal pathogen ‘tastes’ its surroundings within a wheat plant to coordinate virulence could be the key
Schadenfreude: Your pain is my gain
If someone in the workplace is mistreated, their colleagues may respond with empathy — or with schadenfreude. The latter emotion,
Stressed, anxious? Ask the brain!
Our actions are driven by “internal states” such as anxiety, stress or thirst — which will strongly affect and motivate
Smelling with your tongue
Scientists from the Monell Center report that functional olfactory receptors, the sensors that detect odors in the nose, are also
The kids are alright
It’s spring, finally — and in the tree branches a battle is brewing. A robin returns to her nest with
More evidence that blood tests can detect the risk of Alzheimer’s
A new study confirms that a simple blood test can reveal whether there is accelerating nerve cell damage in the
How light triggers brain activity
Optogenetics uses light to control brain processes. It is based on light-controlled proteins such as channelrhodopsin-2, an ion channel that
