Targeting newly identified signaling pathway holds promise for treatments of neurodegenerative disorders By: Mario Aguilera | UC San Diego | August 18, 2021 Healthy adult brains are endowed with a vast number of synapses, structures that relay signals across nerve cells to enable communications, information processing and storage throughout the nervous system. Apart from ... Continue Reading »
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3D “Assembloid” Shows How SARS-CoV-2 Infects Brain Cells
Scott LaFee | UC San Diego | July 16, 2021 Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine have produced a stem cell model that demonstrates a potential route of entry of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, into the human brain. The findings are published in the July 9, 2021 online issue ... Continue Reading »
The Sensitive Brain at Rest
By: Sonia Fernandez, UC Santa Barbara | May 4, 2021 You know that raw overwhelm people have been reporting after months of a pandemic, compounded by economic issues and social unrest? Does fatigue and compulsive social media scrolling strike a familiar chord? Those brittle feelings offer us a glimpse into what regular life can be like for individuals with sensory ... Continue Reading »