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Sep 23, 2024 · This year’s Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting, Neuroscience 2024, is taking place at McCormick Place in Chicago (IL, USA) from 5–9 October 2024.The meeting brings together neuroscientists from across the world to discover new ideas and share the latest discoveries and advances in the field.

Nov 20, 2023 · Secretin receptor signaling induces oxytocin release. Whilst enteroendocrine (EEC) cells were ruled out as a producer of oxytocin in the small intestine, its secretion by L. reuteri from organoids did require increased EECs, which made the researchers question whether an EEC-derived product mediates L. reuteri-driven release of oxytocin.. In the brain, the peptide hormone secretin can release ...

3 days ago · A novel, freely available AI tool has cut the time it takes to determine chromatin structure from days to minutes. The 3D structure of DNA is important for controlling cell-specific gene expression patterns, but determining that structure …

Oct 8, 2024 · The Boltzmann machine. Geoffrey Hinton used the Hopfield method and statistical physics to develop a new network called the Boltzmann machine, which can learn to autonomously recognize specific elements in a data type.

Oct 8, 2024 · The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros (University of Massachusetts Medical School) and Gary Ruvkun (Harvard Medical School [HMS], both MA, USA) for their discovery of microRNA – small, non-coding RNA molecules – and its role in gene regulation.Revealing new layers of genome regulation. Since their discovery in the 1960s, transcription factors have ...

Dec 23, 2024 · Implementing digital PCR (dPCR) into your research can offer unparalleled sensitivity and absolute quantification, overcoming many of the limitations of qPCR. However, the quality of dPCR data can only be as high as the quality of the assay and instrumentation used to produce it. This cheat sheet from Bio-Rad aims to ensure that every experiment […]

Mar 27, 2024 · Microbiology investigates the mighty, minute organisms – including bacteria, archaea, algae, fungi, protozoa and viruses – that play an essential role in our health and ecosystems around the globe.. Microbes’ diversity makes them an interesting group of organisms to study. In this piece, we highlight just a few of the latest microbiology discoveries and the innovative techniques that are ...

Jan 7, 2025 · Investigations of the Mediterranean diet, the gut microbiome and cognition have revealed intriguing associations between the three… A recent study from researchers at Tulane University (LA, USA), led by Demetrius Maraganore, has utilized rat models to explore the potential role of the gut microbiome in the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and cognitive performance.

Oct 10, 2024 · Researchers have concocted a cocktail of bacteria-fighting viruses with the potential to successfully treat antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections.. In a recent study, researchers led by Mark Mimee at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (IL, USA) created a mixture of bacteria-attacking viruses, known as bacteriophages, that holds promise as an ...