Pubpeer: much more than an online journal club
Written by Isabelle
Pubpeer, a platform to centralize exchanges between researchers about published scientific articles. Read about its role in revolutionising scientific …
The Brain Microbiome Project
Written by Isabelle
The “brain microbiome project” led to the discovery of bacteria in healthy brains.
Disembodied pig brains and transplanted heads: new advances in science and the ethics of the brain
Written by Chiara
A research group has reported that they maintained pig brains functional after disembodiement.
A comment on « Microglial control of astrocytes in response to microbial metabolites » Rothhammer et al, Nature 2018
Written by Isabelle
Rothhamer and colleagues showed that gut metabolites influence the astrocytic inflammatory response. Find out more!
Neurogenesis isn’t over…??
Written by Chiara
Not long after the paper from the Alvarez-Buylla lab, here is another report on neurons generated in the adult human brain.
We read an interesting paper! Here is what it says…about Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis.
Written by Chiara
A breakthrough paper shows that neurons are formed also in the adult human brains! Read more about the work of Sorrels & Paredes.
Read more We read an interesting paper! Here is what it says…about Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis.
Circadian clock neurons & environmental conditions
Written by Isabelle
What's the connection between environmental temperature and circadian rhythm? Here we report the findings of a Yadlapalli & Yang on the topic.
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