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Researchers have elucidated the mode of action of a promising inhibitor of a Parkinson's-associated mitochondrial protein.

Research into treatment using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells has been generating positive results one after another.

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A decades-old challenge in neuroscience has been solved by harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the electrical signatures of different types of brain cells for the first time, as part ...

Integrator is one of many protein complexes in the cell nucleus that help control which genes can be “read” and ultimately translated into the proteins that perform the functions of life. Adelman and ...