If the results of a new study by researchers in Australia hold true, cars of the future might not vibrate their drivers. There’s something about highway driving that’s a better sleep-aid for me than Benadryl. I’ve tried to research why this happens and what I can do about it—à la Google—but the solutions are no more revolutionary than: roll the …
Last week, STAT published a story updating us on the H1N1 influenza vaccine-narcolepsy association. With a headline that looked like food for anti-vaxxers, I panicked a bit. So let’s look at the science behind this issue. First off, let’s look at the differences between this case and the larger anti-vaxxer movement. First of all, the man who …
I was once told that glial cells were the cookie dough of the brain, supporting the chocolate-chip neurons in a doughy web of cellular projections. But work from the lab of Harvard’s Beth Stevens, in collaboration with Steve McCarroll from the Broad Institute and Michael Carroll from Boston Children’s Hospital, have shown that glial cells, particularly microglia, …
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