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Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the...

A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when...

Thirty-four million people are living with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, worldwide and each year some 2.5 million more are...

The medical, humanitarian and economical impact of viral diseases is devastating to humans and livestock. There are no adequate therapies...

The human brain keeps changing throughout a person's lifetime. New connections are continually created while synapses that are no longer...

A new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine could pave the way to an era...

Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease found in more than 100 countries, has no cure and no vaccine. One reason...

Scientists have revealed nearly 100 genetic variants implicated in the development of cancers such as breast cancer and prostate cancer....

University of South Florida researchers have suggested a new view of how stem cells may help repair the brain following...

It's like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Researchers have reached inside the brain of a rat and pulled...

Naked mole rats have what any animal would want. They live long lives -- about 30 years -- and stay...

Similar to using Python or Java to write code for a computer, chemists soon could be able to use a...

Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine after using the 2009 pandemic as a natural experiment to...

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) discovered that an antibody that binds and neutralizes HIV likely also targets the...

With a few flicks of a light switch--on-off-on-off--Stanford University's Oscar Abilez is one step closer to changing the lives of...

The toxoplasma parasite can be deadly, causing spontaneous abortion in pregnant women or killing immune-compromised patients, but it has even...

A new technique that allows scientists to measure the electrical activity in the communication junctions of the nervous systems has...

Each cell in an organism has a sensor that measures the health of its "internal" environment. This "alarm" is found...

A duo of scientists at Penn State University has achieved a major milestone in understanding how genomic "dark matter" originates....

In a long-awaited finding, a team of Chinese and US scientists has determined the high-resolution atomic structure of a cell-surface...