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BPoD | Barricading Against Strokes
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Skip to main content. As the control centre of our behaviours and most bodily functions, the brain is an especially precious organ. Consequently, it has its own unique protective shield: the blood-brain barrier. A tightly packed wall of endothelial cells. The cells labeled blue in this embryonic mouse brain), which surround the growing vessels. Pericytes are present in all tissues, but scientists have learnt that brain pericytes express a special protein Foxf2. Written by Ruth Williams. The website aims ...
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BPoD • Posts Tagged ‘brain’
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The brain is unfathomably complex, not least because it is so flexible, constantly making adjustments so we can respond to our environment and learn. Most brain cells, or neurons. Arise during early development, and learning in adulthood occurs primarily by strengthening or weakening existing connections between neurons, known as synapses. Written by Emmanuelle Briolat. Image from work by Kurt A. Sailor and Matthew T. Valley and colleagues. IResearch published in Neuron, July 2016. Spotting a sunny place...
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BPoD • Posts Tagged ‘sciart’
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Ldquo;People have been sticking their fingers into my frontal lobe, and stroking and caressing my heart,” says sculptor Katharine Dowson. She made these larger than life-size sculptures using data from scans of her own heart and brain. Her inspiration came from a chance meeting with neurologist David Dexter. Of Imperial College London. Dowson went on to act as a healthy control in Dexter’s study on Parkinson’s disease. This was led by Declan O’ Regan. At the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre. Is constantly be...
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BPoD • Posts Tagged ‘nerves’
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Smell is important for flies, telling them what is and isn’t safe to eat. The fly nerves that sense smells pass the message on to olfactory projection neurons. PNs), which signal to the parts of the brain that decode it. Forming these kinds of nerve systems is complex, using many different steps to ensure that nerves end up in the right place, with the right connections. Scientists developed a fly that had one PN, the DA1 vPN. Stopped the nerve’s axons. Written by Esther Redhouse White. As the years roll...
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BPoD • Posts Tagged ‘science’
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Infamous for its dire effects on our health, tobacco. Could soon be harnessed to produce an altogether different kind of drug, transforming it into a lifesaver for patients suffering from malaria. Effective treatments for malaria already exist, based on artemisinin. A compound extracted from sweet wormwood,. Yet these plants yield far too little to provide enough medicine for the millions affected. Tobacco. A compound that can later be converted to artemisinin, by inserting a whole suite of genes from.
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BPoD • Posts Tagged ‘Cancer’
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Every year in the UK, 10,000 people are diagnosed with bladder cancer. With more than half of all cases occurring from smoking. It can be difficult to spot bladder cancer at its early stages. If the doctor suspects that bladder cancer is present, one of the first tests patients will receive is cystoscopy. Ndash; a camera attached to a thin tube – is passed into the urethra. Written by Katie Panteli. MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC, USA. Research published in Bladder Cancer, April 2016.
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Former Group Members | The Barton Group | Bioinformatics Research | Division of Computational Biology | University of Dundee
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About the Barton Group. Videos from the Group. Photos of Barton Group Events. Archive of Group News 1999-2013. Archive of Group News May 1994-1999. Google Scholar (Date order). Google Scholar (Citation order). Geoff Barton on twitter. PDF's of early Geoff Barton papers. Data Analysis Group Publications. All Barton Group Software and Databases. Multiple Sequence Alignment and Analysis. Protein Structure and Prediction. Sequence Analysis Tools and Databases. Utility Programs and legacy Databases. Dr Alexan...
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darwin – Gledsley Müller
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Professor Corkbot’s cat. Back in 2009, when I arrived in London, I started talking to Brona McVittie. A science communicator of the MRC. Where my wife works. At that time, I was trying to create flash games and she gave me the idea to create something to celebrate the 150 years since Darwin officially shared his theory of evolution by natural selection with the world! Well, after leaving the project on hold for a while 😛 we decided to go live with it (but I may try to create a better version of it later).
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Flash – Gledsley Müller
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Professor Corkbot’s cat. Back in 2009, when I arrived in London, I started talking to Brona McVittie. A science communicator of the MRC. Where my wife works. At that time, I was trying to create flash games and she gave me the idea to create something to celebrate the 150 years since Darwin officially shared his theory of evolution by natural selection with the world! Well, after leaving the project on hold for a while 😛 we decided to go live with it (but I may try to create a better version of it later).
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