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A promising human clinical trial on four patients may pave the way for a new treatment of glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. Researchers from the University of Florida in the US developed an mRNA cancer vaccine which triggers the immune system to target the tumour. Approximately 19,000 individuals in the EU are believed to be affected by this condition annually. The approach to treating glioblastoma has seen little evolution since the early 2000s, primarily relying on chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgical interventions. The average survival duration for patients diagnosed wit...
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Air pollution is weakening children’s attention span, a new study suggests. Exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) - a pollutant largely pumped out by road traffic - is linked to poorer attention span in children aged four to eight years old. This is particularly pronounced in boys, according to the researchers at Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Their study, published in the Environment International journal, adds to a growing body of evidence about the negative impact of air pollution during pregnancy and childhood on brain development. Only seven countries in the world breathe ...
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A new study has found that our brains are getting larger, which could be good news for reducing dementia risk. Researchers from the University of California analysed data from a cohort in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) which started in 1948 in the US and originally consisted of 5,209 men and women between the ages of 30 and 62. The study has continued for 75 years, meaning that it now includes participants born during the 1930s through the 1970s. Though it was originally designed to study cardiovascular diseases, the researchers focused on MRI results of more than 3,200 people. Published in ...
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Tan Le's groundbreaking work in neuroscience has deepened our understanding of the brain's inner workings. Now, she predicts that we will all use neural interfaces in our daily lives, and they will resemble easy-to-wear headphones. My Wildest Prediction is a podcast series from Euronews Business where we dare to imagine the future with business and tech visionaries. In this episode, Tom Goodwin talks with Tan Le, CEO of Emotiv, about the future of brain technology. How our daily life with neural interfaces will look likeImagine everyday items like your headphones, glasses, or hat could detect ...
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Elon Musk has claimed that his company Neuralink can restore sight in monkeys. On this X platform (formerly Twitter), the Tesla and SpaceX chief said his other company Neuralink had enabled blind monkeys to see with its brain chip technology. “The Blindsight implant is already working in monkeys,” he said on Thursday. The billionaire also said this Neuralink product would be called Blindsight, adding that the resolution would be low to begin with, like “early Nintendo graphics”, but that it could exceed normal human vision in the future. Musk added that “no monkey has died or been seriously in...
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People who speak more than five languages, known as polyglots, light up in the “language network” of the brain when they listen to languages that they speak, with stronger responses to the ones they are most proficient in. However, according to a new study, when listening to their native tongues, the brain’s activity was either similar or dropped off compared to non-native languages they were fluent in. “Something makes it a little bit easier to process - maybe it’s that you’ve spent more time using that language - and you get a dip in activity for the native language compared to other languag...
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A new study suggests that COVID-19 can impact cognitive function a year or more after people have contracted the virus. The study enrolled more than 140,000 participants and assessed the cognitive and memory abilities of individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 compared to those who had not been infected. Study participants were tasked with completing an online cognitive evaluation using a platform called Cognitron. The tasks were designed to identify nuanced changes to cognition such as memory, reasoning, attention, and impulsivity. “The potential long-term effects of COVID-19 on cognitive...
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Tokyo (AFP) - Scientists have successfully implanted and integrated human brain cells into newborn rats, creating a new way to study complex psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and autism, and perhaps eventually test treatments. Studying how these conditions develop is incredibly difficult -- animals do not experience them like people, and humans cannot simply be opened up for research. Scientists can assemble small sections of human brain tissue derived from stem cells in petri dishes, and have already done so with more than a dozen brain regions. But in dishes, "neurons don't grow to...
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Washington (AFP) - A small new study published Tuesday by scientists at the US National Institutes of Health suggests that the immune response triggered by coronavirus infections damages the brain's blood vessels and could be responsible for long Covid symptoms. The paper, published in the journal Brain, was based on brain autopsies from nine people who died suddenly after contracting the virus. Rather than detecting evidence of Covid in the brain, the team found it was the people's own antibodies that attacked the cells lining the brain's blood vessels, causing inflammation and damage. This ...
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