Ancient eel-like creature answers questions about when these bizarre fish branched off the evolutionary tree from other vertebratesCredit: Tetsuto Miyashita, University of Chicago. Paleontologists at...
Credit: Kenichi Tsuda Unlike animals, plants cannot move freely to escape from life-threatening conditions. This constraint means that they require strategies to protect themselves against...
Credit: Dr. Vadim Axelrod Imagine a world where everyone has the same face. That would be a very different world than the one we know....
Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University Our brains seem to reduce sensory perception from an area of our skin when we touch it ourselves, according to a...
Education, job complexity and intellectual activities play only minor roles Early adult general cognitive ability (GCA) -- the diverse set of skills involved in thinking,...
Life experience may be transmitted from one generation to the next through changes in gene expression, parental caretakingCredit: Kalogeraki, Yusifov, and Löwel, eNeuro (2019) Mice...
Approach reduces seizures by 93 percent in three monthsCredit: Giovanna Paolone A protein-secreting device implanted into the hippocampus of epileptic rats reduces seizures by 93...
New animal model could improve understanding of post-traumatic epilepsyCredit: Alexys Harrington Researchers have identified a cellular response to repeated concussions that may contribute to seizures...
Credit: BC Children's Hospital Research Institute Up to one-third of pregnant women do not believe cannabis is harmful to their fetus, according to a new...
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The search for a mechanism that could explain how the protein complex NCOR1/2 regulates memory has revealed an unexpected connection...
New printing technique and materials could be used to develop intelligent materials and self-adaptive infrastructures and transducersCredit: Photo by H. Cui of the Zheng Lab...
Test also may identify neurodegeneration in other brain diseases, injuries A simple blood test reliably detects signs of brain damage in people on the path...
Hyperexcitability of neurons not due to lowered inhibition because brain compensates A detailed study of four mouse models of autism challenges the most common assumption...
Publication in Nature Medicine Years before symptoms of Alzheimer's disease manifest, the brain starts changing and neurons are slowly degraded. Scientists at the German Center...
The world's first genetic sequencing of precancerous lung lesions could pave the way for very early detection and new treatments, reports a new study led...
