Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Living organisms are made up of hundreds of thousands of cells that cooperate to create the organs and systems that breathe, eat, move, and think.

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Patients with CaV2.1 channelopathies face severe and often debilitating symptoms, such as seizures, migraines, tremors, and ...

Living organisms are made up of hundreds of thousands of cells that cooperate to create the organs and systems that breathe, eat, move, and think. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a new way ...

Two Harbors Investment is set to be acquired by UWM Holdings Corporation in an all-stock merger. TWO shares surged on the news, although the gains were limited by a slump in UWMC stock. If UWMC stock ...

United Holding Corp., the parent company of United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), has struck an all-stock deal to acquire real estate investment trust Two Harbors Investment Corp. for $1.3 billion. The ...

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Efforts to efficiently manufacture human neurons from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are rapidly transforming the landscape of neuroscience research, drug discovery, and emerging cell-based ...

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When Europeans colonized North America centuries ago, they imposed on Indigenous peoples their language, clothing, food, economy, education and religion. Through the same process of forced ...

By recording the electrical activity of one neuron while simulating another using optogenetic tools, neuroscientists can probe the connection between the two neurons. If two neurons are connected by a ...