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New study of brain neurotransmitter receptor has implications for drug discovery Surprisingly complex movements in an important neurotransmitter receptor may help explain the brain's unpredictable...

Credit: Graphic courtesy Yan Li CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Recent flooding in the Midwest has brought attention to the complex agricultural problems associated with too much...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Sleep and exercise are vital to the wellbeing of new parents, but these essentials affect new moms differently than new dads,...

Credit: Image by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Pivotal technology will enable evaluation of many advanced reactor fuels and designs. For the first time in several...

Credit: Rolf Peterson/Michigan Tech Fifteen wolves. 2,060 moose. Extensive ice and deep, powdery snow. Michigan Tech researchers have released the annual Winter Study report. In...

April 30, 2018 - Above-knee amputation (AKA) is a rare but severe complication of deep infection after knee replacement surgery. Low-income patients are at increased...

Credit: NASA/W. Hrybyk NASA research scientist Tom Hanisco set out to build an instrument capable of measuring a short-lived chemical that cleanses the atmosphere of...

NIH study identifies importance of support for critical suicide prevention services The United States may lack the resources needed to meet increases in demand for...

How do smartphones affect our relationships? How do filmmakers adapt movies to take advantage of our capacity for vision, hearing and memory? How can public...

Credit: Photo courtesy of: UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research...

HSV-1, which mostly infects the mouth, and HSV-2, which causes genital sores, are forming recombinants in present-day humansCredit: Greg Pepper The line between the human...

A Leuven research team led by Prof. Bart De Strooper (VIB-KU Leuven, UK DRI) studied how specialized brain cells called microglia respond to the accumulation...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Cancer cells have various tricks up their metaphorical sleeves to survive in the face of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other cancer treatments. Now...

Harvard Medical School receives $4.5 million for cannabinoid research from Harvard University alum Charles R. Broderick, an alumnus of Harvard University and MIT, has made...

Credit: WSU Pullman, Wash. - Washington State University researchers found a troubling number of errors in publicly available genomic data as they conducted a large-scale...