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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...

An innovative interventional radiology treatment has been found to offer chronic migraine sufferers sustained relief of their headaches, according to...

From a practical standpoint, the wiring of the human eye - a product of our evolutionary baggage - doesn't make...

A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been...

Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be about as small as...

A key part of the brain involved with decision making, the striatum, appears to operate hierarchically – much like a...

Researchers have for the first time successfully converted adult human skin cells into neurons of the type that regulate appetite,...

A new study by a University of Texas at Arlington physics team in collaboration with bioengineering and psychology researchers shows...

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have tested a temporary tattoo that both extracts and measures the level...

U.S. and Australian scientists have found the mechanism a novel gene uses to affect brain function and elicit behavior related...

Emulsifiers, which are added to most processed foods to aid texture and extend shelf life, can alter the gut microbiota...

Newly developed tiny antennas, likened to spotlights on the nanoscale, offer the potential to measure food safety, identify pollutants in...

Like the shape-shifting robots of “Transformers” fame, a unique class of proteins in the human body also has the ability...