LONDON (Reuters) - More than 135 brain diseases including autism, chronic pain, schizophrenia and dementia are linked to defects in proteins in the junctions between nerve cells, scientists have found ...
In a recent study published in Nature, researchers develop the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-human organoids-single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing (CHOOSE) ...
A growing body of evidence points to the cerebellum, long dismissed as a simple motor-coordination center, as a shared site of dysfunction in both autism spectrum disorder and Parkinson’s disease. A ...
Among babies with severe congenital heart disease (CHD), neurological abnormalities tended to cluster in those who had been exposed to some placental pathology while still in the womb, a single-center ...
Exposure of human cortical interneurons to hypoxia leads to decreased migration, a process that is likely altered in preterm infants and contributes to the increased risk for neurodevelopmental ...
Left half: Confocal image of a CHOOSE (CRISPR-human organoids-scRNA-seq) human brain organoid mosaic system showing cells carrying a mutation in red. Right half: a mosaic depiction of different colors ...
CHAPEL HILL – For decades, scientists have thought the faulty neural wiring that predisposes individuals to behavioral disorders like autism and psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia must occur ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children born with birth defects or to mothers with a history of multiple stillbirths may have a higher-than-normal risk of brain cancer, a new study suggests. The risks ...