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Bacteria-based biohybrid microrobots on a mission to one day battle cancer

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:21 AM PDT

Scientists add artificial components to bacteria for better control and an extra therapeutic effect in seeking and destroying tumor cells.

Whole blood exchange could offer disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer's disease

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 05:50 AM PDT

A novel, disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer's disease may involve the whole exchange of blood, which effectively decreased the formation of amyloid plaque in the brains of mice, according to a new study.

Researchers develop better model to study brain-attacking viruses

Posted: 14 Jul 2022 11:51 AM PDT

A new mouse model might revolutionize development of therapies targeting brain inflammation caused by Rift Valley Fever virus.

Sentences have their own timing in the brain

Posted: 14 Jul 2022 11:51 AM PDT

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study, researchers report that the brain encodes the structure of sentences ('the vase is red') and phrases ('the red vase') into different neural firing patterns.