Meet Christian González-Billault, Vice-Rector of Research and Development at the University of Chile, Santiago, and EMBO Associate Member

Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers.

Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - This Roadmap article discusses recent advances in the production and use of brain organoids to understand brain development and associated disorders. The...

One year into President Javier Milei’s presidency, scientists are exiting the country in the face of big budget cuts.

Nature Cell Biology - Scientific questions are universal but the scientific workforce remains skewed, with women and gender minorities still underrepresented. Initiatives such as the Women in...

Ammothumkandy et al. provide a functional role for adult neurogenesis in human cognition. They show that immature neuron levels benefit verbal learning in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) patients. The decline and eventual loss of immature neurons in MTLE hippocampus occurs during a critical period of disease progression.

La jefa del Servicio Pediatría del Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, Mariela Muñoz, asegura que hay más casos de lo habitual de esta enfermedad, que a diferencia de

Axons have always been assumed to be cylindrical. Using in silico modeling and cryopreservation of tissues, Griswold et al. demonstrate that unmyelinated axons of the mammalian central nervous system ...

Madhavan et al. identify and characterize the selective regulation of protein solubility by the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate (βHB) across a range of models. βHB exposure rescues cell-based and C. ele...

Studying RNA dynamics in vivo often relies on fluorogenic approaches, but these can be hampered by factors such as limited sensitivity and sample autofluorescence. Here, the authors describe an ultras...

PhD Project - Mechanisms of alternative splicing in neurodegeneration and ageing at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

Podcast Episode · Not Born Yesterday · 11/22/2024 · 27m

Ketone esters help clear misfolded proteins in mouse models of aging and Alzheimer’s disease   Ketone bodies, produced by the body to provide fuel during fasting, have roles in regulating cellular pro...

Telomere dysfunction, usually owing to shortening, activates cellular senescence and can contribute to age-associated diseases and cancer. Mouse models are crucial for telomere research, but human and...