Study finds pinworm medication has potential to treat aggressive skin cancer
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Researchers tested pyrvinium pamoate against Merkel cell carcinoma with positive results.
New research shows that enhancing norepinephrine signaling in microglia reduces inflammation and toxic amyloid buildup in Alzheimer’s models. Loss of this pathway worsened plaques and neurodegeneration, findings that suggest that early targeting therapies could slow disease progression.
How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is processed in our brain’s circuitry, offering insights for neurological disorders and brain-like AI systems.