As effects of microbial infections on fetal brains become more apparent, questions arise whether maternal immune responses can also have damaging effects. buff.ly/J5GckpE

But unlike many other autoimmune or chronic illnesses, lupus can improve as patients reach their 60s and 70s buff.ly/4maEjw5

Aquatic exercise is an excellent way to focus on fitness in a gravity-reduced environment: buff.ly/O5eIpSz

Even the image outside the focus of attention was still actively represented by neuronal firing buff.ly/8CrnbSi

Excessive GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) produced by astrocytes, which are star-shaped support cells in the brain, impairs the brain's ability to extinguish fear memories. buff.ly/Ja6VFkY

Boosting miR-542-3p thwarts stress-related cell loss in the hippocampus and eases depressive-like behavior in mice buff.ly/yZYvhpt

White blood cells are called into action with microbe attacks and tissue damage of all kinds. They use very specific modes of travel to the inflammation site, spurred by the signals of capillaries, tissue cells, and other immune cells buff.ly/0z3PrMe

Strong electric fields in thunderclouds accelerate electrons that crash into molecules like nitrogen and oxygen, producing X-rays, initiating a deluge of additional electrons and high-energy photons—perfect storm from which lightning bolts are born buff.ly/pXrMc0H

In bone marrow alone, about 500 million cells are born every minute, each requiring duplication of over 2 meters of DNA, If chromosomes were copied from end to end, this would take months. Instead, cells copy many DNA segments at once. buff.ly/gx7vfkU

Complex interactions of inflammation and cancer are now coming into focus and neurons are an important part of this picture. buff.ly/5bkOWOl

Animal-based fats fuel tumor growth in obese mice, plant fats do not buff.ly/Ntvvz0c

People with NDEs frequently reported meeting dead loved ones, DMT users universally described encounters with otherworldly or alien beings. buff.ly/Xcr1vtc

One of the most active and vital type of communication occurs among the cells that form the lining of organs and the matrix cells that form the connective structure. buff.ly/6NzK1e4

Fungus could use thin, threadlike structures called hyphae to reach across the air gap and create a living bridge between the plants' roots. the hyphae successfully transferred water between the specimens buff.ly/76v9JwP

A direct link between molecular-level function and micron-level nucleolar architecture, revealing the dynamic coordination between pre-rRNA processing and nucleolar substructure, buff.ly/HZTNm2N

T cells can attack cancers if they consider antigens from cancer particles as foreign. buff.ly/MYQQdjr

Certain stretches of DNA called small open reading frames (smORFs) can contain the instructions for making microproteins. Current experimental methods have already cataloged thousands of smORFs bit.ly/45f9dLq

When a person has a rapid heartbeat, the heart cells adapt to keep calcium levels balanced, creates a vicious cycle where more heart cells adapt to keep calcium levels balanced, makes the heart more susceptible to arrhythmias buff.ly/b8jAMKH

One of the least understood processes is how cancer cells travel to distant places and produce metastatic colonies, which produces the majority of cancer deaths (90%) buff.ly/z0C5VQy

Dogs respond not just to any sound, but to the emotional tone of your voice. buff.ly/ElvT88L