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In the absence of food, neurons that normally control appetite initiate complex, repetitive behaviors seen in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and...

Imagine a pair of twins that everyone believed to be estranged, who turn out to be closer than anyone knew....

If a mobile phone rings during a meeting, its owner often has to dig it out before it can be...

The popular dietary supplement ubiquinone, also known as Coenzyme Q10, is widely believed to function as an antioxidant, protecting cells...

Michail Sitkovsky, an immunophysiology expert at Northeastern University, and his research colleagues have made a breakthrough discovery in cancer treatment....

Researchers at UC Davis have developed and characterized a molecule that interferes with the internal regulation of cancer cells, causing...

A powerful genome editing tool may soon become even more powerful. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)...

Scientific debate has been hot lately about whether microbial nanowires, the specialized electrical pili of the mud-dwelling anaerobic bacterium Geobacter...

The 3-D printing scene, a growing favorite of do-it-yourselfers, has spread to the study of plasma physics. With a series...

Changing the shape of breast cancer cells could make the disease more sensitive to treatments - even driving the body's...

Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have identified a new pathway by which several brain areas communicate within the brain’s striatum. Published...

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...

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

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...