A study conducted at the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital in Finland has concluded that the mother’s health and lifestyle during pregnancy can have a huge impact on the neurodevelopment of 2-year-old children. It also states that gestational diabetes may have unfavourable effects on the neurodevelopment of the child.

Scientists from Northwestern Medicine in the USA collaborated with scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Hong Kong and have identified a drug that has the possibility of becoming the first treatment for aggressive meningiomas that recur.

Rice has a long history as a staple food in Japan and other parts of Asia. The results of a new study by an international research collaboration suggest that the emergence of cultivated rice from wild rice plants is the result of three gene mutations that make the seed fall from the plant less easily.

Carriers of a specific hidden bacteria have a 14 percent chance of developing an antibiotic resistant infection with 30 days of hospitalisation, according to researchers from Amsterdam UMC. The results have been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

New research from King’s College London has found that seeing or hearing birds is associated with an improvement in mental wellbeing that can last up to eight hours. This improvement was also evident in people with a diagnosis of depression indicating the potential role of birdlife in helping those with mental health conditions.

A study, in mice, found that gut bacteria — partly by producing compounds such as short chain fatty acids — affect the behavior of immune cells throughout the body, including ones in the brain that can damage brain tissue and exacerbate neurodegeneration in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

A team of engineers and neuroscientists has demonstrated for the first time that human brain organoids implanted in mice have established functional connectivity to the animals’ cortex and responded to external sensory stimuli. The implanted organoids reacted to visual stimuli in the same way as surrounding tissues.

Final results of landmark study confirm two-thirds reduction in cases of malaria, including cases of severe malaria, and deaths from malaria, for RTS,S-drug combination over either intervention given alone in settings of highly seasonal malaria transmission.

Scientists have developed a therapy by using an allogeneic ‘off the shelf’ engineered ‘twin stem cell approach’ to maximize an attack on cancer cells that have spread to a part of the brain known as leptomeninges.

A recent review article by neuroscience researchers at Wayne State University suggests that neurofilament light (NfL) blood levels could serve as a reliable biomarker for predicting the rate of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease.