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Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:40:01 EDT

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions took a closer look at how the gastrointestinal tissue repairs itself. They reveal in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences key players and their connections in the repair process and suggest the possibility that they also may contribute to the repair of other types of tissues.

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:20:02 EDT

Multiple regions of the brain engage in fast-moving conversations to understand language, UTHealth Houston researchers have discovered, dispelling a prior school of thought that only one region of the brain was responsible for language processing. The research, led by Nitin Tandon, MD, professor of neurosurgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and director of the Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies at UTHealth Houston, was published in PLOS Biology.

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:07 EDT

A team of researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi and the University of Denver has identified a promising small molecule that could help slow or halt the progression of serious brain diseases such as Parkinson's disease, offering new hope for treatments that go beyond managing symptoms. These diseases, which also include Lewy body dementia and multiple system atrophy, are caused by aggregation and spread of a neuronal protein, which damages brain cells over time. Currently, there are no approved treatments that can stop or slow this process.