Neuroscience
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A one-time gene therapy aims to stop Huntington's disease at its source. But first, it has to survive clinical trials.
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Optimizing the chemical architecture of siRNA improves its therapeutic potential for neurodegenerative disorders.
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This year’s Breakthrough Prizes honor advances in CAR T cancer therapies, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson’s disease.
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High resolution microscopy revealed distinct mitochondrial populations in inner ear hair cells, setting the stage for probing their role in mitochondrial deafness.
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Data from a highly resilient individual guided researchers to new potential therapeutic targets.
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A new form of brain stimulation treatment that responds to a patient’s brain activity could be life changing for people with neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Amit Etkin embraces the diverse underpinnings of depression and other psychiatric disorders and pairs patients with drugs based on their unique biology.
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People with misophonia feel intense anger in response to certain sounds. Can scientists find a cure?
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Using tiny chambers that release signals from a patient’s own tumor, scientists trigger immune cells to mount a personalized attack against the cancer.
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Mixed messages surrounding their clinical benefits threatened the legitimacy of stem cell therapies for multiple sclerosis, but there is still plenty of promise.
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Synthetic biologists are looking into the secrets of the inner ear to treat hearing loss, one of the most common and intractable health concerns in adults worldwide.
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A specific blood-brain barrier protein may present a potential target for treatment-resistant epilepsy.
