Control Brain Cells

Researchers have used a new CRISPR technology that enables them to control these microglia cells. This, according to the team, can lead to a new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The team geared up to detect the genes that were responsible for specific states of the microglial activity. With this, they could switch the genes on and ...

The researchers claim to have found a single neuron in the brain, which gets activated when sugar/food is consumed and is able to monitor and control sugar levels in the body. The team carried out the study on Drosophila, the vinegar fly.

Navigation is considered a complex behavioural task, and in animals is partly controlled by a sort of onboard GPS driven by "grid cells" in the brain's hippocampus region.

Researchers have discovered a new protein that could reduce the spread of cancer by binding the cancer cells together and allowing them to invade tissues. Read full report here.

Parkinson's is a disease with unknown causes. It destroys the brain cells that control body movements. Read the report to know more.

Older adults with poorly controlled diabetes may struggle with whats known as episodic memory, the ability to recall specific events experienced recently or long ago, a study suggests.

Dubbed sonogenetics, the new technique has some similarities to the use of light to activate cells in order to better understand the brain.

In a first, an Indian American researcher from Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California has developed a new way to selectively activate brain, heart, muscle and other cells using ultrasonic sound waves.

British scientists are on track to develop a new robot which they claim will be controlled by a blob of human brain cells.

Researchers have used a new CRISPR technology that enables them to control these microglia cells. This, according to the team, can lead to a new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The team geared up to detect the genes that were responsible for specific states of the microglial activity. With this, they could switch the genes on and ...

The researchers claim to have found a single neuron in the brain, which gets activated when sugar/food is consumed and is able to monitor and control sugar levels in the body. The team carried out the study on Drosophila, the vinegar fly.

Navigation is considered a complex behavioural task, and in animals is partly controlled by a sort of onboard GPS driven by "grid cells" in the brain's hippocampus region.

Researchers have discovered a new protein that could reduce the spread of cancer by binding the cancer cells together and allowing them to invade tissues. Read full report here.

Parkinson's is a disease with unknown causes. It destroys the brain cells that control body movements. Read the report to know more.

Older adults with poorly controlled diabetes may struggle with whats known as episodic memory, the ability to recall specific events experienced recently or long ago, a study suggests.

Dubbed sonogenetics, the new technique has some similarities to the use of light to activate cells in order to better understand the brain.

In a first, an Indian American researcher from Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California has developed a new way to selectively activate brain, heart, muscle and other cells using ultrasonic sound waves.

British scientists are on track to develop a new robot which they claim will be controlled by a blob of human brain cells.