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Johns Hopkins Scientists Study How Neurons Create Connections During Development

August 12, 2015

Pretend for a moment that you’re a developing neuron in the mammalian cerebral cortex. Your cell body, which houses the command center of the neuron, sits in one out of the six cortical layers. Your job is to establish the proper connections with up to thousands of other neurons. How do you establish these connections? […]

Alisa Mo ⋅ Perspectives in Research Cerebral Cortex, Circuits, Connections, Neurons, protein ⋅

Progeria Effects in Cells Improved with an Antioxidant Found in Broccoli

June 30, 2015

The famed Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon once traveled to the New World in search of the mythical Fountain of Youth. Hundreds of years later, we are still fascinated by youth and aging. Though not on a quest for a source of youth, scientists today are seeking to learn about the aging process in […]

Xuan Pham ⋅ Perspectives in Research aging, antioxidants, broccoli, broccoli sprouts, cell death, Cells, DNA, fibroblasts, HGPS, Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, LMNA gene, progeria, progerin, protein, sulforphane ⋅

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