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Scientists Used Gene Therapy to Cure Deafness in Mice
The mice could hear almost as well as those that were born able to hear.
Researchers peer inside the mind of the worm for clues on how memories form
Try as you might, some events cannot be remembered. Known in psychology as memory blocking, the phenomenon has remained elusive since first described more than half a century ago. Now Donnelly Centre researchers have found that blocking is not due to problems with forming memories, as previously thought, but with memory recall—in worms at least.
By studying this process in the C. elegans worm, a creature only one millimeter long but whose biology has been studied so extensively that the position of all of its 302 nerve cells in the body is known, the researchers think they’ll be able to pinpoint the cells and molecules at play during learning and memory.
The findings are described in a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Neuroscientists Discover New Form of “Wireless” Brain Communication
A team of scientists studying the brain have discovered a previously unidentified form of “wireless” neural communications in brain tissue.
Samsung just announced the first foldable phone you can buy and it will cost $1,980
Samsung announced the Galaxy Fold phone during a press event in San Francisco. It’s the first foldable phone consumers will be able to buy.
Meet the newest known moon of Neptune
The wee world, named after a mythical sea creature, has a surprisingly brutal past.
Heart attacks rising among young women, study shows
(CNN) — The risk of having a heart attack appears to be rising among young women, according to a new study, and researchers are trying to figure out why.
When analyzed across five-year intervals, the overall proportion of heart attack-related hospital admissions in the United States attributable to young patients, ages 35 to 54, steadily climbed from 27% in 1995–99 to 32% in 2010–14, with the largest increase observed in young women, according to the study, published recently in the journal Circulation.
During those periods, there was a rise in these admissions from 21% to 31% among young women, compared with 30% to 33% among young men, the study showed.
Tennessee Teen Builds Working Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home
A Tennessee teen has become the youngest person in America—and possibly the world—to build a working nuclear reactor and achieve fusion.
Jackson Oswalt, now 14, set out on the ambitious project when he was just 12, according to USA Today, and achieved nuclear fusion in his Memphis home just hours before he turned 13 on Jan. 19, 2018.
“A couple of years back, all I did was play video games,” he told the news outlet. “And I decided I didn’t want to spend all my life doing video games.”
Nature Retracts Paper on Delivery System for CAR T Immunotherapy
The manuscript had amassed more than about problematic figures and data on PubPeer.
14 Reasons Why People 100 Years Ago Died So Much Younger [INFOGRAPHIC]
During the pre-vaccination years, people died at younger ages not only because of poor sanitation and hygiene, but also mostly due to these 14 fatal diseases.