Brain creates 'new' nerve cells
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Researchers have discovered for the first time that the human brain can grow new nerve cells.
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How advances in neuroscience could transform our legal system.
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Researchers have cloned healthy mice from skin cells for the first time.
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A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
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Pulsing transplanted heart cells with electrical current helps them grow into mature cardiac cells, bringing doctors closer to a grow-your-own heart patch, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Researchers have unveiled a new way to map the brainâs billions of neurons.
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Scientists say they have located the parts of the brain that help us &#39;unlearn&#39; our fears. One of the main areas involved is the same as that used to learn fears in the first place, experiments by the New York University team showed.
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Researchers coax cells in a petri dish into learning to guide a plane. The project should lead to a better understanding of how the brain works. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Turning specific cells on and off in fly brains can help researchers understand how individual parts of a complex system affect the whole animal.
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New nerves grown from stem cells taken from a patient's fat could be available by 2011, say researchers.
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Heart cells grown from human embryonic stem cells have the potential to be biological pacemakers. Researchers at the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel have demonstrated that when the embryonic
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Transplanting brain cells produced from human embryonic stem cells helped fix stroke damage in the brains of rats, according to scientists who hope to test the same thing in people within about five years.
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Research into using stem cells to repair damaged nerves just got a big boost, with scientists pinpointing a protein key to controlling binocular vision -- visual depth perception -- in mammals.
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Researchers have taken ordinary skin cells from a mouse and reprogrammed them to look and act like embryonic stem cells in a long-promised experiment that provides an alternative way to get the valued and controversial cells.
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Monkey stem cells can repair the brain damage caused by Parkinson's disease, researchers have shown.
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Researchers working with slices of rat brains come up with a microchip that mimics the part of the brain responsible for creating memories. They hope to create a prosthesis for the human brain within 15 years. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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NEW YORK  - Transplanting brain cells, from  a region called the choroid plexus, into rats that have  suffered a stroke seems to reduce the damage that occurs,  according to a report in the medical journal Stroke.