Tiny brain, big deal: fruit fly diagram could transform neuroscience https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/02/fruit-fly-brain-connections-wiring-diagram-neuroscience
CRISPR gene editing helps brain stem cells regain youth in mice. Disabling a gene involved in metabolism rejuvenates cells’ ability to spin off new neurons.
Creating a generation of people who never smoke could prevent 1.2 million deaths from lung cancer globally. Banning tobacco products for people born in 2006-2010 could prevent almost half (45.8%) of future lung cancer deaths in men, and around a third (30.9%) in women in 185 countries by 2095.
BlitzOrion on October 3, 2024 6:03 am Paper 1 – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y Paper 2 – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07686-5
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Paper 1 – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y
Paper 2 – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07686-5