Futurity: Some investigational Alzheimer’s disease therapies are more effective when paired with a treatment geared toward improving drainage of fluid—and debris—from the brain, according to a study in mice. Experimental Alzheimer’s drugs have shown little success in slowing declines in…
Quanta Magazine: A hundred years ago, the Japanese scientist Y. Shirai published a mysterious finding: When Shirai transplanted tumor tissue into a mouse’s body, the tissue was destroyed by its immune system. But when tumors were grafted in various places in…
Photonics.com: A genetically encoded biosensor to detect hallucinogenic compounds could be used to aid in the discovery of treatments for mental illness, in neuroscience research, and to detect drugs of abuse. A team at the University of California, Davis (UC…
The Guardian: Dr Yolanda Ohene: ‘In science, I’d like to see a breaking down of intellectual elitism’. Dr Yolanda Ohene, 29, is a biophysicist at the University of Manchester. After…
Forbes: Alay Shah, 17, of Plano West Senior High School, Plano, Texas, placed in the top ten at the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search by designing an eye-tracking algorithm…
