Italian scientists find a treatment that works on rats (ANSA) - Florence, May 16 - Italian researchers working with rats have discovered a treatment for weak vision that could be developed into a way of rejuvenating the human brain . The t...
Eyeing a cure. Damaged nerve fibers don't regrow ( top ) unless treated with oncomodulin ( bottom ). Credit: Larry Benowitz By Prashant Nair Science NOW Daily News 15 May 2006 When neurologists first found a way to regrow damaged optic ner...
Image: COURTESY OF PNAS New research in specially-bred mice has elucidated how the antidepressant Prozac works. Scientists have long known that in addition to discouraging synapses from reabsorbing the neurotransmitter serotonin Prozac (kn...
Philosophers have been fascinated by the question since Pythagoras. At the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Elaine Chew, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, now teaches a graduate course on using computational and o...
Profile of 973 Program The Origin and Strategic Significance The National Basic Research Program (also called 973 Program) is China's on-going national keystone basic research program, which was approved by the Chinese government in June 1...
The cover of May 4 issue of Neuron highlighting the work by Dr Duan et al. The cover depicts the conversion of the silent synapse (lower left, blue) into the functional one (upper right, red), induced by high-level neuronal activity (red b...
On July 13, 2009, the Journal of Cell Biology published a research article from t...
On October 10th, the Journal of Neuroscience published an article from ION entitl...