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TWiN 34: Microglia vital after spinal cord injury

  • September 30, 2022
  • Tagged as: astrocyte, macrophage, microglia, neurobiology, neurology, neuroscience, RNA sequencing, spinal cord injury

TWiN explains how central nervous system resident macrophages known as microglia coordinate cellular interactions during spinal cord repair in mice.

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TWiN 16: Neuronal depolarization with Stefano Brigidi

  • March 17, 2021
  • Tagged as: astrocyte, memory, nervous system, neurology, neuron, neuronal depolarization, neuroscience, podcast, transcription factor NPAS4

Stefano joins TWiN to discuss his work on understanding genomic decoding of neuronal depolarization by stimulus-specific transcriptional regulators.

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TWiN 13: mRNAs for long-term memory

  • December 16, 2020
  • Tagged as: astrocyte, contextual fear memory, engrams, inflammation, learning, long-term memory, membrane fusion, memory, memory consolidation, microglia, neuron, neuroscience

Ori, Jason, Erin, and Vincent dissect a study that utilizes single-cell RNA sequencing to reveal the genes that underlie remote memory storage in the medial prefrontal cortex of the mouse.

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TWiN 11: A dollar per neuron

  • October 14, 2020
  • Tagged as: astrocyte, brain cortex, evolution, interneuron, mammals, neuron, neuroscience, reptiles, single cell transcriptomics

Maria joins TWiN to explain how single-cell transcriptomics is being used to reveal the evolution of the brain, at a cost of about $1 per neuron.

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