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.
The device uses ultra-sensitive quantum sensors to pick up these tiniest of magnetic fields to see inside the brain in order to map neural activity.
The logical and critical thinking concepts learnt in a mathematics class can be applied to everyday life.
In an article in Cell, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded researchers described how they used advanced genetic engineering techniques to transform a bacterial protein into a new research tool that may help monitor serotonin transmission with greater fidelity than current methods.
"While the phenomenon of these modulators' influence has been studied at the level of the neocortex, where the brain's most complex computations occur, it has rarely been studied at the more fundamental levels of the brain," said study author R Michael Burger from the Lehigh University in the US.
The experts will study around 80,000 women recruited from three major hospitals in south India - the Bangalore Medical College, the Madras Medical College and the Calicut Medical College.
