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Scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Academia Sinica in Taiwan have developed an experimental RNA-based treatment that prevents brain damage and improves learning, memory and social behavior in mice ...
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Since the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Medicine have maintained a national database of patients affected by COVID-19-related smell loss. Their latest survey ...
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How do we age, and how do we become more at risk of brain diseases as we age? An Arizona State University-led team is helping answer those questions with a new high-resolution atlas of the aging primate brain.
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