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Nucleosomes may be far less uniform inside living chromatin than the textbook picture suggests. In a 2026 Nature study, a single-molecule method called IDLI found that more than 85% of sampl…
Read articleA 2026 preclinical study found that 25C-NBF, a selective 5-HT2A psychedelic phenethylamine, increased plasticity-related markers and produced rapid antidepressant-like effects in male rodent…
Read articleA preprint in 84 older adults with epilepsy found that abnormal Alzheimer's-related blood biomarkers were common, but the biomarker categories did not line up neatly with cognitive impairmen…
Read articleA 2026 iScience paper used simultaneous sleep EEG-fMRI from 2 healthy cohorts totaling 24 people to build slow-wave-related BOLD reference maps and propose SloCAD, a framework for measuring …
Read articleOne-pronuclear biparental zygotes may be less biologically normal than they look. In a 2026 Nature mouse study, forcing maternal and paternal genomes into 1 enlarged pronucleus disrupted ear…
Read articleA 2026 systematic review found that microglia-related immune signals do not line up cleanly with psychiatric diagnosis labels: major depression showed frontolimbic TSPO-PET increases, while …
Read articleA 2026 structural MRI study found that cerebellar gray-matter patterns helped distinguish first-episode bipolar depression from unipolar depression: a model using significant cerebellar lobu…
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