[ad_1] Using post mortem tissue samples, a team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has studied the mechanisms by which the novel coronavirus can reach the brains of COVID-19 patients and how the immune system responds to the virus once it does. The results, which show that SARS-CoV-2 enters …
Read More »Researchers reveal a new pain control mechanism
[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 25, 2020 Researchers in Japan have revealed a previously unknown mechanism for pain control involving a newly identified group of cells in the spinal cord, offering a potential target to enhance the therapeutic effect of chronic pain medications. While neurons may be the best-known …
Read More »COVID-19 potentially has negative impacts on male fertility
[ad_1] A review recently posted on Journal of Medical Virology discussed some of the effects infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), can have on male fertility. In the paper, Cemile Seymen of the Gazi University Institute of Health Sciences, …
Read More »Scientists unravel how tissue geometry affects the movement of cells through the body
[ad_1] Cells are constantly moving throughout our body, performing a myriad of operations critical to tissue development, immune responses, and general well-being. This commotion is driven by chemical signals long studied by scientists interested in cell migration. To better understand this phenomenon, a team of biologists and physicists, led by …
Read More »Its structure is like the human brain. Amazing
[ad_1] A new study has looked at the differences and similarities between the universe, one of the most complex systems that exist at completely different scales, and the galaxies in it, the brain and nerve cells it contains. Researchers; They noted that although there are differences in the systems that …
Read More »Scientists use gene therapy to regenerate damaged optic nerve fibers
[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 5, 2020 Scientists have used gene therapy to regenerate damaged nerve fibers in the eye, in a discovery that could help develop new treatments for glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Axons – nerve fibers – in the adult central nervous system (CNS) …
Read More »Delirium accompanied by fever could be an early symptom of COVID-19
[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 4, 2020 Delirium accompanied by fever could be an early symptom of COVID-19. This is the main conclusion drawn from a review of scientific research conducted by researchers from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). The study is published in open access Journal of …
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