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A research group has revealed how a seemingly simple animal is able to produce nerve cells throughout its entire body....

Scientists have identified a gene that helps regulate how well nerves of the central nervous system are insulated, researchers at...

The healthcare sector is not escaping from the revolution in information and communications technologies. Thanks to the latest advances in...

People who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with longevity also have larger volumes in a front...

When a salamander loses a tail, it grows a new one. What’s the difference, biologist Peter Reddien wondered, between a...

Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different...

In a new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California at San Francisco have revealed how a...

A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that targeting a key enzyme and its associated...

How do stem cells preserve their ability to become any type of cell in the body? And how do they...

Cancer uses a little-understood element of cell signaling to hijack the communication process and spread, according to Rice University researchers....

The brain’s alphabet is a mix of rate and precise timing of electrical pulses: the observation was made by researchers...

Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s or Parkinson’s are caused by defect and aggregated proteins accumulating in brain nerve cells that...

Researchers delivered a modified RNA that encodes a telomere-extending protein to cultured human cells. Cell proliferation capacity was dramatically increased,...

A research article published today in Science presents the first major analysis based on the Human Protein Atlas, including a...

A revolutionary device has been shown to significantly lower blood pressure among patients with uncontrolled high blood pressure, compared to...

In the largest collaborative study of the brain to date, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University...

The ability to grow human heart muscle cells in bulk could help routine replacement of heart cells damaged during a...

In findings that may lead to new treatments for cognitive disorders, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory...