Published by Cell Press, Neuron is a premier peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers high-impact research across all fields of neuroscience. It features studies ranging from molecular and cellular mechanisms to complex cognitive functions and neurological disorders.
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A week of daily separations left adult mouse brain cells with their DNA packaging loosened, and of sixteen candidate enzymes only one had changed. Add that enzyme to unstressed pups and they grew up fragile. Take it away and stressed pups grew up steady.
A protein already linked to Alzheimer’s turns out to hijack mitochondria directly, flipping their energy production into reverse and flooding nerve cells with reactive molecules, according to a new multi-species study.