Therapeutic – Knowing Neurons

LSD: Psychedelic Thrill or Optimism Pill?

April 20, 2016September 24, 2017 Rachel Jonas 5-HT2AR, Albert Hofmann, Anxiety, blood-oxygen-level dependent, BOLD, Brain, cancer, depression, Effects, Experiment, fMRI, functional connectivity, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, hallucinogen, Imperial College London, LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, Neuroscience, Pain, placebo, psilocybin, Science, serotonin, serotonin 2A receptor, signal, Therapeutic, Therapy

If you’re in a room with ten adults, chances are two of them are going to develop a mental illness –- and only one of them will receive proper treatment.… Read more

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CRISPR-Cas9: Targeted Genome Editing

March 18, 2015March 5, 2017 Jooyeun Lee Animal model, Cas9, CRISPR, Disease, Disorder, DNA, Double-stranded break, Editing, Enzyme, gene, genetic, Genome, Infographic, Knock-in, Knock-out, KO, Mutagenesis, mutation, PAM, Replacement, Scissors, Targeted, Technique, Therapeutic

~ Infographic by Jooyeun Lee and Kate Fehlhaber. ~ References: Hsu P. & Feng Zhang (2014). Development and Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for Genome Engineering, Cell, 157 (6) 1262-1278. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.05.010 Fineran… Read more