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The spinal cord transmits pain signals to the brain, where they are consciously perceived. But not all the impulses arrive...

A pioneering class of drugs that target cancers with mutations in the BRCA breast cancer genes could also work against...

Wei Tang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at New Mexico State University, is taking a cue from nature...

Rodents infected with a common parasite lose their fear of cats, resulting in easy meals for the felines. Now IU...

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have successfully tested a potent synthetic compound that prevents...

A 3-D printing technology developed by Silicon Valley startup, Carbon3D Inc., enables objects to rise from a liquid media continuously...

Tiny particles embedded in gel can turn off drug-resistance genes, then release cancer drugs. Chemotherapy often shrinks tumors at first,...

Neuroscientists find that different parts of the brain work best at different ages. Scientists have long known that our ability...

Research from McGill University reveals that the brain’s motor network helps people remember and recognize music that they have performed...

A good immune system relies on a key 'energy producing' protein in immune cells to develop immunity to vaccines and...

A trained scent dog accurately identified whether patients' urine samples had thyroid cancer or were benign (noncancerous) 88.2 percent of...

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...