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Genetics (42 articles)
- Friendship Might Actually Shrink Tumors (We Have the Neural Circuit to Prove It)
- Brain Tumors Are Sneaky: They're Learning to Talk Like Neurons
- A Gene Linked to Intellectual Disability Controls How Oligodendrocytes Shape Their Myelin
- Gene Therapy for Epilepsy and Autism Is Finally Getting Personal
- A Specific Type of Motor Cortex Neuron Is Essential for Learning New Movements
- Canada's 12-Year Experiment: Following Healthy People Whose Parents Had Alzheimer's
- Adult ADHD Is Real, But It's Weirder and More Complicated Than You Think
- Baby Mouse Brains Wire Touch and Vision Circuits Differently (And It Makes Evolutionary Sense)
- Your Brain's Sugar Coating Is Tiny, Mysterious, and Probably More Important Than You Think
- Your Brain Wires Its Senses Before It Can Even Use Them, and Scientists Finally Know How
- Your Brain Has a Beautiful Frequency Map for Hearing, But It Falls Apart When Signals Go Backward
- Your Gut Has Hundreds of Millions of Neurons and Nobody Can Agree How to Count Them
- Male and Female Mice Have Different Musical Tastes (And It Rewires Their Brains Differently)
- When Part of Your Nerve Gets Hurt, the Healthy Part Says "Chill, I Got This"
- Brain Cell Types Might Be Real After All: Spatial Transcriptomics Finds the Pattern
- Your Urethra Has Taste Buds, and They're Starting Fights
- Your Immune System Might Be Sabotaging Itself, and You'd Never Know Until It's Too Late
- You Can Measure Consciousness Without Zapping Anyone's Brain
- Your Dormant Memories Are Guarded by Specific Neurons (And Scientists Can Now Unlock Them)
- The "Simple" Worm Everyone Studies Was Hiding Sophisticated Math All Along
- These Cancer Cells Figured Out How to Plug Into Your Brain's Electrical System
- Your Brain Doesn't Care That Scientists Like to Study One Variable at a Time
- The Genetics of Chronic Pain Finally Points to Actual Cells (Including Ones in Your Back)
- The Morris Water Maze: Same Test, 1,000 Different Ways to Run It (And That's a Problem)
- Why Some Kids Get Diagnosed With Autism at 3 and Others at 13: Genetics Plays a Role
- Want to Live Longer? Let Your Neurons Panic About Oxygen (Just a Little)
- Scientists Found a Drug Cocktail That Hits Just One Brain Circuit (No Lasers or Gene Therapy Required)
- Special Smell-Processing Units Have Their Own Unique Wiring Rules
- Scientists Figured Out Why Some Nerve Cells Die by Iron Poisoning (And How to Stop It)
- Scientists Can Now Watch Individual Viruses Sneak Into Cells in Real Time
- Neuroscience's Favorite Theory Has a Small Problem: The Data Doesn't Fit
- STING Kills Neurons Directly (No Inflammation Required)
- Male and Female Mice Have Different Musical Tastes (And It Rewires Their Brains Differently)
- Scientists Built a Tiny Hotel for Worms So They Could Watch Each One's Entire Life Story
- Postpartum Psychosis Needs Its Own Diagnosis, Say Experts (And Here's Why It Belongs With Bipolar)
- Scientists Figured Out What Happens When Acupuncture Opens the Blood-Brain Barrier (Yes, Really)
- How an Ion Channel Regulator Works - By Changing Membrane Cholesterol, Not By Binding the Channel
- Microplastics and Nanoplastics Damage Fish Brains (A Meta-Analysis)
- Scientists Found a Molecular Off-Switch That Could Stop Nerve Damage in a Brutal Inherited Disease
- Scientists Finally Figured Out What This ALS Protein Does All Day (Spoiler: Takes Out the Trash)
- Researchers Found the Exact Neurons Causing Seizures in a Devastating Genetic Disease
- Scientists Map What Goes Wrong in Diabetic Nerve Damage - Cell by Cell