Scientists find more microplastics in human brains than in kidneys and livers—and levels are rising
Tiny plastic particles may accumulate at higher levels in the human brain than in the kidney and liver, with greater ...
Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says
Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the ...
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Vagus nerve stimulation may tame autoimmune diseases
The next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis could be tiny pulses of electricity delivered to the ...
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Enhancing Brain Imaging with Semi-Supervised Digital Staining and S-OCT
This study presents a novel deep learning framework for digital staining in OCT, enabling high-resolution 3D imaging of brain ...
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Mapping the topographic organization of the human zona incerta using diffusion MRI
The zona incerta (ZI) is a deep brain region originally described by Auguste Forel as an “immensely confusing area about which nothing can be said.” Despite the elusive nature of this structure, ...
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Grey Matters in the Lab: Utilizing Human Brain Tissue for Basic Research, Disease Modeling and Drug Development
Recent evidence indicates that, despite similarities in molecular and gene expression profiles between analogous neurons in the human and rodent neocortex, ...