In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured astronaut to remove a life-threatening blood clot from his brain.
In a little over 10 years, organoid models – miniature, lab-grown clusters of cells that imitate real organs – have transformed how we study human development and disease while accelerating drug discovery.
A new study has offered intriguing new insights into the origins of type 2 diabetes and obesity, as well as the brain's function as a critical control centre.
For the first time, a study on Thursday showed that ambient particulate matter air pollution is a top risk factor for subarachnoid haemorrhage -- a type of brain stroke -- at par with smoking.
US researchers have identified a protein responsible for causing fatigue in people with long Covid, Alzheimer's and other diseases.
"These findings point towards the need for treatments that focus on helping patients take back control of their body"
The results of the team’s recent work in the area have been published as an abstract in the journal, Brain Stimulation which is co-authored by Dr Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury from IIT Mandi, Dr Yashika Arora from National Brain Research Centre, India and Dr Anirban Dutta of University at Buffalo.
Dr. Shabi Ahmed, the head of the surgery department, stated that since it has the tendency to bleed, again and again, it needs to be either clipped microsurgically or endovascular treatment.
The findings of the study were published in the journal 'Communications Biology'. The researchers used a virtual-reality environment where volunteers were in a meadow picking flowers. They knew that some flowers are safe, while others have a bee inside that will sting them.
A team of scientists in the US successfully created a form of artificial vision for a 60-year- old woman, who was fully blind for more than 16 years, using a prosthesis hardwired into her brain.
