Limp or firm, your handshake conveys subliminal social cues. Now, research reveals it also transmits chemical signals that could explain...

Highlighting a potential target in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests that triggering a...

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have found that navigational brain cells that help sense direction are as electrically active...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: researchers slice a brain into thin little sections and, just by measuring...

A newly published study is the first to report an association between bisphenol-A (BPA), a common plasticizer used in a...

Protein engineering is the crucial pulse of the booming, relatively new scientific discipline. Scientists grow, harvest, and reprogram proteins to...

Modern biology has attained deep knowledge of how cells work, but the mechanisms by which cellular structures assemble and grow...

You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study reveals that mammals are genetically more...

How can a humpback whale and a device that works on the same principle as the clicker that starts your...

It's well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also "remember"...

3-D printing could become a powerful tool in customizing interventional radiology treatments to individual patient needs, with clinicians having the...

An innovative interventional radiology treatment has been found to offer chronic migraine sufferers sustained relief of their headaches, according to...

From a practical standpoint, the wiring of the human eye - a product of our evolutionary baggage - doesn't make...

A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been...

Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be about as small as...

A key part of the brain involved with decision making, the striatum, appears to operate hierarchically – much like a...

Researchers have for the first time successfully converted adult human skin cells into neurons of the type that regulate appetite,...

When diagnosing a case of Ebola, time is of the essence. However, existing diagnostic tests take at least a day...

A new study by a University of Texas at Arlington physics team in collaboration with bioengineering and psychology researchers shows...