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A specific network in the brain may be to blame, according to a USC-led study on stress

A drug treatment that mimics fasting can also provide the same benefit, study finds.

A new study in neonatal mice carried out by the Center for Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona (CMR[B]), in collaboration with the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the University of Barcelona (UB), has established that the ability of the heart to regenerate after a wound is related to the stiffness of the cellular environment, rather than to the proliferative capacity of the cardiac cells, narrowing the window of regeneration to 48 hours after birth.

Columbia biomedical engineers invent innovative technique to help injured hearts regenerate, through therapeutic application of extracellular vesicles secreted by cardiomyocytes derived from human pluripotent stem cells

A new mouse study offers insights into why some people's hair goes gray in response to a serious illness or chronic stress. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Alabama (UAB) have discovered a connection between the genes that contribute to hair color and the genes that control the body's immune system.

Thanks to these USC Viterbi researchers, doctors may soon be able to see a brain tumor burned away in real time

The untethered biohybrid microswimmer is able to transport and deliver cargo encapsulated into a guidable red blood cell, while an attached bacterium, one of the most efficient swimmers in nature, acts as a propeller to move it forward. Once it has reached its destination and delivered its cargo, the scientists can destroy the microswimmer using infrared light.

Salk scientists develop a new model for glioblastoma using gene-edited organoids