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Brittany Travers, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on May 13, 2022

The goal of this proposal was to determine if microRNA’s (miR) are elevated in the plasma of individuals affected by the inherited peripheral neuropathy Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, type 1A (CMT1A)

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Brain Imaging, Brittany Travers

John Svaren, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on May 9, 2022

The goal of this proposal was to determine if microRNA’s (miR) are elevated in the plasma of individuals affected by the inherited peripheral neuropathy Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, type 1A (CMT1A)

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Biomarkers, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, CMT, John Svaren

Masatoshi Suzuki, DVM, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on April 29, 2022

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neuromuscular disease in which patients gradually become paralyzed due to loss of motor function. Many genetically inheritable mutations have been linked to ALS; however, the majority of ALS patients are considered sporadic.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, iPSC, Masatoshi Suzuki, Stem Cells

Audra Sterling, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on April 22, 2022

This study examined the extent to which early intervention (EI) speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use and recommend language input strategies for caregivers of children with language delays and the child factors associated with these decisions.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Audra Sterling, Early Intervention, Speech Language Pathologists

André Sousa, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on April 15, 2022

Title: Single-cell gene expression analysis reveals signatures of adult neurogenesis in mouse, pig and macaque, but not in humans. Legend: A) Schematic of the analytic workflow. DG: dentate gyrus; CA: cornu ammonis; Sub: subiculum; EC: entorhinal …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged André Sousa, Gene expression, Neurogenesis

Krishanu Saha, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on April 8, 2022

Biomedical research has been revolutionized by the introduction of many CRISPR-Cas systems that induce programmable edits to nearly any gene in the human genome.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged CRISPR, Kris Saha

Jenny Saffran, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on April 1, 2022

Title: Toddlers make use of speaker’s genders while listening to words Legend: Toddlers viewed pairs of familiar objects selected to be prototypically male or female. As they listened to words referring to these objects, we …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Gender, Jenny Saffran, Lexical Processing, Toddler

Seth Pollak, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on March 28, 2022

Learning the value of environmental signals and using that information to guide behavior is critical for survival. Stress in childhood may influence these processes, but how it does so is still unclear.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Avoidance Behaviors, Early Life Stress, Seth Pollak

Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on March 18, 2022

Endoplasmic reticulum-based Nɛ-lysine acetylation serves as an important protein quality control system for the secretory pathway.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Cortical Neurons, Luigi Puglielli, Slide of the Week

Bernadette Gillick, PhD, MSPT, PT – Slide of the Week

Posted on March 6, 2022

Perinatal brain injury is a primary cause of cerebral palsy, a condition resulting in life-long motor impairment.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Bernadette Gillick, Infant Brain, Perinatal stroke
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