Megan T. had been living in Los Angeles for just two weeks when she spotted a flyer at her local Petco offering opportunities to foster kittens for the ASPCA. “I thought fostering would be a good introduction to having a cat or dog,” says Megan, who joined the ASPCA’s L.A. Kitten Foster program and took […]
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Research describes how neurons could disconnect from each other in Huntington’s disease
A hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s is the progressive death of nerve cells in the brain. The cells don’t die quickly, though. They first start to disconnect from each other because their neurites—long finger-like extensions that make connections all through the brain—become smaller. Now, using animal models and nerve cells grown in the lab, […]
More Australians are asking each other this important question
It is a difficult question, but four in five Australians have tried to ask it in the past year. Statistics from mental health organisation RU OK? released today revealed 81 per cent of people have found themselves reaching out to someone over the past 12 months to ask, "Are you okay?" Roughly four in five […]