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The brain: is the organ located in the head and serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate. The brain is the most complex organ in a vertebrate's body and is close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision.
MAR 13, 2019 | 6:00 AM
Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, will provide an overview of challenges and opportunities in mental health research. Dr. Gordon will present em...
FEB 27, 2019 | 10:30 AM
Over the past 25 years surgically dependent animal models have expanded from a small, almost niche area in pharmaceutical research to an important component of most research portfolios. In t...
FEB 14, 2019 | 6:00 AM
Approximately 30% of drugs have failed in human clinical trials due to adverse reactions despite promising pre-clinical studies, and another 60% fail due to lack of efficacy. The NIH Tissue C...
FEB 07, 2019 | 8:00 AM
Date: February 7, 2019Time: 8:00am PST, 11:00am EST Modern microscopes are becoming increasingly complex instruments enabling registration of image sets far beyon...
NOV 15, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Neuronal migration defects, including pachygyria, are among the most severe developmental brain defects in humans. Using human genetics approaches, we recently identified bi-allelic truncatin...
NOV 15, 2018 | 10:00 AM
The complexity of the human brain, with thousands of neuronal types, permits the development of sophisticated behavioral repertoires, such as language, tool use, self-awareness, symbolic thou...
NOV 13, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: November 13, 2018TIME: 9:00am PST, 12:00pm ESTExtracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-secreted nanoparticles that play a pivotal role in intercellular communic...
OCT 24, 2018 | 7:30 AM
In the postgenomic era, one expects the suite of chemical players in a brain region to be known and their functions uncovered. Perhaps surprisingly, many neurochemicals remain poorly characte...
OCT 11, 2018 | 7:30 AM
In the past two decades a small number of infrequently dividing cells have been proposed as the source of multi-drug resistance during cancer treatment. These cells identified by their expres...
OCT 10, 2018 | 12:00 PM
To date the anatomic extent of tumor (TNM-classification) has been by far the most important factors to predict the prognosis of cancer patients. However, this classification provides limited...
SEP 27, 2018 | 1:30 PM
Lowe Syndrome (LS) is a devastating genetic disease characterized by abnormalities in the eyes, brain and kidneys that unfortunately leads to the premature death of affected children due to r...
