In a study involving marmosets, a primate genetically similar to humans, researchers have come closer to understanding brain evolution.
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The Adult Brain Can Recover Lost Vision
Summary: Administering a chemical compound called synthetic retinoids to the retina helped restore brain networks associated with vision and prompted the growth of two times more neurons, effectively restoring vision in adult mouse models of the genetic visual disorder LCA.
Source: UC Irvine.
A discovery about how some visually impaired adults could start to see offers a new vision of the brain’s possibilities.
Brain Inspired Podcast Interviews
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How blindsight answers the hard problem of consciousness
An evolutionary approach to consciousness can resolve the ‘hard problem’ – with radical implications for animal sentience by Nicholas Humphrey + BIO.
Mapping Human Brain Development
Summary: Brain organoids are helping researchers map the molecular, genetic, and structural changes that occur during brain development.
Source: ETH Zurich.
The human brain is probably the most complex organ in the entire living world and has long been an object of fascination for researchers. However, studying the brain, and especially the genes and molecular switches that regulate and direct its development, is no easy task.
New RNA Tool Can Illuminate Brain Circuits and Edit Specific Cells
Editing technology is precise and broadly applicable to all tissues and species.
Scientists at Duke University have developed an RNA
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule similar to DNA that is essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes. Both are nucleic acids, but unlike DNA, RNA is single-stranded. An RNA strand has a backbone made of alternating sugar (ribose) and phosphate groups. Attached to each sugar is one of four bases—adenine (A), uracil (U), cytosine ©, or guanine (G). Different types of RNA exist in the cell: messenger RNA (mRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and transfer RNA (tRNA).