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The human metathalamus is extremely important for relaying auditory and visual signals to the rest of the brain. However, a detailed, three-dimensional map of the...

An international team of investigators, including several researchers in biological sciences from the U of A, have published a paper that reports the discovery of...

PHILADELPHIA— A new type of cell that resides deep within human lungs and may play a key role in human lung diseases has been discovered...

Cichlids and stingrays can perform simple addition and subtraction in the number range of one to five. This has been shown in a recent study...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect specialized pacemaker cells that maintain the heart’s rhythmic beat, setting off a self-destruction process within the cells, according to a...

The presence of dendritic cells, so-called ‘sentinel’ immune cells, is vital to maintain and regulate the balance of the body’s immune response. Researchers have discovered an...

Gender-affirming facial surgery (GFS) is pursued by transgender individuals who desire facial features that better reflect their gender identity. Until now, there have been few...

COVID-19 patients commonly report having headaches, confusion and other neurological symptoms, but doctors don’t fully understand how the disease targets the brain during infection. Credit: Tulane...

Infant monkeys conceived while their mothers were naturally exposed to wildfire smoke show behavioral changes compared to animals conceived days later, according to a new...

University of Leeds news Credit: Lee Roberts University of Leeds news  Embargo: Friday 1 April, 10am London time  Increased levels of blood fats in people with...

Over the two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian taught a freshman seminar called The Age of Dinosaurs, one question asked frequently by undergraduates stuck with him:...

When scientists announced the complete sequence of the human genome in 2003, they were fudging a bit. In fact, nearly 20 years later, about 8%...

Prehistoric mammals bulked up, rather than develop bigger brains, to boost their survival chances once dinosaurs had become extinct, research suggests.Credit: Ornella Bertrand and Sarah...

Xinjiang, in northwest China, lays at an important junction between east and west Eurasia and has played a historically important role in the exchange of...

Tetrahymena, a tiny single celled-organism, turns out to be hiding a surprising secret: it’s doing respiration – using oxygen to generate cellular energy – differently...