Issue 29 Microglia: Little Giants in the Brain Imagine the brain as an epic house party with various cell types acting as partygoers, each contributing to the chaotic buzz. Amid the lively crowd, the neurons are the center
Issue 26 Gene Therapy: Treating the Untreatable If you asked researchers for a list of the last decade’s most important discoveries, most would include CRISPR-Cas9, a system that has the ability to find a sequence within a strand of DNA, cut it out, and replace it with a new sequence.
issue 24 CADASIL: How a Rare Disease Could Help Cure Dementia In 1976, French neuroscientist Marie-Germaine Bousser recruited hundreds of Parisians for an experiment to determine whether aspirin could prevent subsequent strokes in patients who had already had strokes...
Issue 21 Nootropics: How Online Communities Foster Misinformation and Pseudoscience On a sunny July day in Paris, 189 cyclists breathe a sigh of relief. Some are celebrating, some are disappointed, and some are just grateful that they can get some rest.
Issue 23 Of Mice and Men: Rodent Models in Neuroscience Research In Denmark, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have identified specific genetic predispositions in mice that eventually impair the development of oligodendrocytes, crucial cells that produce the myelin sheath.
Issue 22 Love, Sex, and Brains Between different individuals and cultures, the spectrum of human wants, needs, actions, and responses varies almost infinitely. But despite these differences, one phenomenon seems to persist across the branching history
