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WOODS HOLE, Mass. — For two people to communicate in a loud, crowded room, they need to be standing side...

UT Southwestern stem cell scientists find that stringent lineage tracing is crucial for studies of nerve cell regeneration. Their results, which...

Philadelphia, September 29, 2021 – Corneal defects often heal themselves, but serious injuries that are left untreated can result in...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Somewhere among the glitter of the night sky is a small satellite powered by innovative, next-generation solar...

Single-use diagnostic tests often aren’t practical for health professionals or patients in resource-limited areas, where cost and waste disposal are...

Buck Institute professors Judith Campisi, PhD and Lisa Ellerby PhD, have been awarded a $14.3 million grant from the NIH’s...

Are mammals at all able to demonstrate empathy for one another, engage in pro-social behavior, and help others in distress?...

Mark Bear, Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, recalls the “eureka moment” 20 years ago when he realized that a...

A review article published in the journal Frontiers in Physiology by researchers affiliated with the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil discusses...

Ikoma, Japan – Sometimes in research, just as in other areas of life, answers to fundamental questions can be sitting...

Patients with excited delirium who are combative, aggressive or agitated before being transported to the hospital or in an emergency...

A new study led by palaeontologists at the University of Southampton suggests that bones found on the Isle of Wight...

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) and collaborators in Japan have discovered particular neurons in the brain...

Niigata, Japan - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an intractable neurological disease. Aging is a risk factor for the accumulation...

Jochen Zimmer, PhD, professor of molecular physiology and biomedical physics at the School of Medicine, has been named an Investigator...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – When Kamlendra Singh flew back to Missouri from India in April, he developed a cough and fever...

TROY, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute computer scientist Chuck Stewart will join a newly created institute aimed at using images...

Several studies conducted over the last decade have concluded that dry eye disease (DED) affects up to 50% of the...

Memories of past events and experiences are what define us as who we are, and yet the ability to form...

Most emerging infectious diseases of humans (like COVID-19) are zoonotic – caused by viruses originating from other animal species. Identifying...