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Study sheds light on link between gene readouts, mental disorders ANI | Updated: Feb 13, 2021 19:49 IST Washington [US], February 13 (ANI): A new study suggested that the distinctions in the expression of gene transcripts that construct the cells of the human body might prove helpful in understanding how mental issues with shared hereditary danger factors bring about various examples of onset, symptoms, side effects, course of ailment, and treatment reactio...

Study highlights link between mental disorders and gene readouts ANI | Updated: Feb 09, 2021 08:18 IST Washington [US], February 9 (ANI): A research by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) claims that the distinctions in the expression of gene transcripts that construct human body cells may hold the way to understand how mental issues with shared hereditary danger factors bring about various examples of onset, symptoms, side effects, course of ail...

By Carla Garnett Paticipating in a 7th town hall meeting about coronavirus are (clockwise, from top l) NIH director Dr. Francis Collins, principal deputy director Dr. Lawrence Tabak, sign language interpreter Ester Fass, NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci, Clinical Center CEO Dr. James Gilman and ORS Director Colleen McGowan. On Jan. 15, NIH director Dr. Francis Collins hosted the 7th virtual town hall on NIH’s coronavirus response. He was joined by NIH principal deputy director Dr. Lawrence Ta...

 E-Mail Scientists at Scripps Research have clarified the workings of a mysterious protein called Gαo, which is one of the most abundant proteins in the brain and, when mutated, causes severe movement disorders. The findings, which appear in Cell Reports, are an advance in the basic understanding of how the brain controls muscles and could lead to treatments for children born with Gαo-mutation movement disorders. Such conditions--known as GNAO1-related neurodevelopmental disorders--were dis...

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By Rich McManus NIAID’s Dr. Helen Su When the global pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus made its debut in late 2019, NIAID’s Dr. Helen Su was studying inborn errors of immunity in patients with viral infections, mostly rhinoviruses, which cause colds, and influenza. Why, she wondered, was there such variability of outcomes in people infected with the same virus? In a remarkable example of the NIH Intramural Research Program’s nimbleness, she and her colleagues quickly pivoted to studi...

Harmful and Healing Responses to Brain Injury Diverge by Cellular Mediators and Time January 20, 2021 Harmful and healing immune responses to cerebrovascular injury depend on the timing of the response and cells mediating the response, a new study reports. Injury to blood vessels in the brain, or cerebrovascular injury, commonly caused by a stroke that blocks a blood vessel (ischemic stroke), can result in severe swelling and inflammation. In patients with short-term blockade of a blood vessel ...

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered Jekyll and Hyde immune cells in the brain that ultimately help with brain repair but...

Dr. Neil Hanchard joins NHGRI as a clinical investigator SHARE: Dr. Hanchard will lead the new Childhood Complex Disease Genomics Section. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has appointed Neil Hanchard, M.D., Ph.D., as a clinical investigator within the Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch (MGMGB) in the NHGRI Division of Intramural Research. Dr. Hanchard will head the Childhood Complex Disease Genomics Section within the MGMGB. “We are delighted to welcome Neil Ha...