Mount Holyoke College: The Brainiest Research
May 29, 2018
May 29, 2018
SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts, May 29 -- Mount Holyoke College issued the following news:
Exposure to smoke during a certain window in a mouse's pregnancy can cause her pups to show autism-like behaviors. An accumulation of tau proteins in the glial cells of a fruit fly's brain can cause the neurons around those cells die.
In both cases, cells in the brain are responding to their environment and communicating -- to their detriment -- with other cells in the body . . .
Exposure to smoke during a certain window in a mouse's pregnancy can cause her pups to show autism-like behaviors. An accumulation of tau proteins in the glial cells of a fruit fly's brain can cause the neurons around those cells die.
In both cases, cells in the brain are responding to their environment and communicating -- to their detriment -- with other cells in the body . . .