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 E-Mail Loss of smell, or anosmia, is one of the earliest and most commonly reported symptoms of COVID-19. But the mechanisms involved had yet to be clarified. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, Inserm, Université de Paris and the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP) determined the mechanisms involved in the loss of smell in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 at different stages of the disease. They discovered that SARS-CoV-2 infects sensory neurons and causes persistent epitheli...

Updated Jan 11, 2021 | 14:26 IST The Black Box helps investigators study the causes of crashes and suggest changes in flight engineering and policies. But the history of how a Black Box was invented is a juicy tale of research and enterprise. The Black Box is a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspiStock Images Key Highlights The Black Box is not black and it is not one box. Here are juicy details about the orange-coloured device...

22 Dec 2020 Many people with Alzheimer’s wake up frequently at night, nap excessively during the day, and lose their sense of time. Besides sleep cycles, the circadian clock also controls astrocyte and microglia activation, and knocking out one of the core clock genes, Bmal1, hastens plaque formation and promotes neuroinflammation and synaptic damage. Now, researchers led by Erik Musiek and Brian Lananna at Washington University in St. Louis report that Bmal1 regulates the gene for YKL-40, a ...

Imbalance in Gut Microbiome Can Lead to Depressive-Like Behaviors December 14, 2020 Share Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) recently conducted a study “Effect of gut microbiota on depressive-like behaviors in mice is mediated by the endocannabinoid system” showing that an imbalance in the gut bacterial community can cause a reduction in some metabolites, resulting in depressive-like behaviors. These findings, which s...

Depression is a mental disorder that affects more than 264 million people of all ages worldwide. Understanding its mechanisms is vital for the development of effective therapeutic strategies.

South. >> well, flooding is a problem in other places. a tiny illinois town of cairo is facing pressure from rising waters on both the ohio and mississippi rivers. the army corps of engineers is considering blowing up a levee to ease the pressure in missouri. it could send floodwaters pouring across thousands of acres of missouri farmland. missouri has already lost one court case to stop the demolition. it is now asking the u.s. supreme court to step in. remember the air france jet crashing in...

The rebel city of misrata today in the heaviest shelling scene in weeks. and in tripoli groups described as organized mobs ransacked empty embassies belonging to the u.s. and several other countries. the attacks followed word that nato air strikes killed gadhafis son saif al arab gadhafi. moammar gadhafi was in the same building but survived. nato says it does not target individuals. remember that air france jet crashing into the atlantic ocean two years ago? a memory unit of part of the fligh...

To be an attack. several french nationals were among the wounded. french president nicolas sarkozy issued a statement condemning that violence. and search teams have located a portion of the crucial data recorders from that air france flight that crashed into the atlantic ocean almost two years ago, but the important memory unit is still missing. the discovery comes weeks after a key piece of wreckage was found containing a number of bodies. those bodies have not yet been recovered, wolf. >> t...

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