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Myelin: a lipid-rich (fatty) tissue layer formed around nerve cells. It acts as an electrical insulator, facilitating conduction in axons. In patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), the immune system attacks the central nervous systems resulting in damaged myelin sheaths.
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AUG 26, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have discovered a regulatory process that controls the maturation of brain cells. This regulation seems to b ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 02, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
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Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 17, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease in which the myelin sheath, an insulation that surrounds nerve cells, is sl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 12, 2024Neuroscience
Researchers investigated how a 40Hz light and sound therapy helps preserve myelin in patients with Alzheimer's disease ( ...Written By: Annie Lennon
AUG 26, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have discovered a regulatory process that controls the maturation of brain cells. This regulation seems to b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that is thought to impact about 2.3 million people around the
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 19, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functi
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 17, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease in which the myelin sheath, an insulation that surrounds nerve cells, is sl
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 12, 2024
Neuroscience
Researchers investigated how a 40Hz light and sound therapy helps preserve myelin in patients with Alzheimer's disease (
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Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 05, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
After decades of effort, scientists have made real progress in understanding multiple sclerosis. While researchers knew
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 08, 2024
Drug Discovery & Development
This study unraveled an exciting and unexplored facet of MS treatment
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Amielle Moreno
FEB 20, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
In DNA, retrotransposons can move around and insert themselves into other parts of genomes with a kind of copy and paste
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 22, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an inflammatory disease that affects nerves. It is thought to be an autoimmune disorder
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APR 21, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Date: April 21, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Spatial Answers Trilogy - Spatial Answers in Immunology Immunology Researchers share their Spatial Discoveries in SARS-C...Speaker: Doug Brown, PhD , Susanne Krasemann, MD, PhD , Michelle Naughton, PhDSponsored By: NanoString Technologies, IlluminaAUG 15, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: August 15, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Radiation therapy is a critical tool for the treatment of brain tumors, however, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation...JUL 01, 2017 | 8:00 AM
Research on human brain development and neurological diseases is limited by the lack of advanced experimental in vitro models that truly recapitulate the complexity of the human brain. Here, ...
MAR 18, 2015 | 10:30 AM
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder affecting 1% of the world’s population, leading to high human, social and economic burdens. Understanding how the interaction of gene and...
MAR 19, 2014 | 9:00 AM
Multiple Sclerosis is a debilitating neurodegnerative disease of the central nervous system in which the immune system targets and destroys myelin sheaths surrounding axons. Progressive a...
APR 21, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Date: April 21, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Spatial Answers Trilogy - Spatial Answers in Immunology Immunology Researchers share their Spatial Discoveries in SARS-C...
Speaker:
Doug Brown, PhD
, Susanne Krasemann, MD, PhD
, Michelle Naughton, PhD
Sponsored By: NanoString Technologies,
Illumina
AUG 15, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: August 15, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Radiation therapy is a critical tool for the treatment of brain tumors, however, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation...
JUL 01, 2017 | 8:00 AM
Research on human brain development and neurological diseases is limited by the lack of advanced experimental in vitro models that truly recapitulate the complexity of the human brain. Here, ...
MAR 18, 2015 | 10:30 AM
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder affecting 1% of the world’s population, leading to high human, social and economic burdens. Understanding how the interaction of gene and...
MAR 19, 2014 | 9:00 AM
Multiple Sclerosis is a debilitating neurodegnerative disease of the central nervous system in which the immune system targets and destroys myelin sheaths surrounding axons. Progressive a...
MAR 19, 2014 | 7:00 AM
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that leads to widespread pathology within the central nervous system (CNS) and is the most common cause of neurologic disability among young a...
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JUN 16, 2020
Mass Spectrometry has come a long way over the years and has brought powerful analytical capability to a wide range of applications. Behind every powerful mass spec is a powerful mind workin...MAR 19, 2015 | 6:00 AM PDT
Labroots is excited to present the 2nd annual event in the Neuroscience Virtual Event Series....MAR 19, 2014 | 6:00 AM PDT
Labroots is excited to present the 1st annual event in the Neuroscience Virtual Event Series!...
JUN 16, 2020
Mass Spectrometry has come a long way over the years and has brought powerful analytical capability to a wide range of applications. Behind every powerful mass spec is a powerful mind workin...
MAR 19, 2015
| 6:00 AM PDT
Labroots is excited to present the 2nd annual event in the Neuroscience Virtual Event Series....
MAR 19, 2014
| 6:00 AM PDT
Labroots is excited to present the 1st annual event in the Neuroscience Virtual Event Series!...