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Our ability to learn, remember, problem solve, and speak are all cognitive functions related to different parts of our brain. If researchers can identify how...

Credit: Children's National Health System Right now, more than 100,000 adult and pediatric patients in the U.S. are waiting for a life-saving kidney donation. Thirteen...

(University of Liege) Researchers have revealed that malignant melanoma can reprogram their protein synthesis machinery and become addicted to a new family of enzymes that...

Credit: (R. Marsh Starks/ UNLV Creative Services) Is your iPad being a literal pain in the neck? The answer is likely yes -- especially if...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - June 20, 2018 - Scientists conducting one of the largest full DNA analyses of a rare disease have identified a...

Opening onsite health clinics to provide comprehensive primary care to teachers and their families can lower a school district's health care costs and decrease teacher...

Credit: Melissa Fabrizio A groundbreaking discovery by University of Alberta researchers has identified previously-unknown therapeutic targets that could be key to preventing the spread of...

NEW YORK (June 20, 2018)--Cannabis use may be decreasing among teens, but a new study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health...

Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. In a pilot study by a team of researchers at The University of Texas...

Boston, MA -- More than 60 percent of women who undergo a mastectomy to treat breast cancer choose breast reconstruction, and the demand for that...

An international team of scientists have developed a new way to screen for age-related cognitive decline at home using a test which asks people to...

Credit: © Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- June 20, 2018 -- Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals, leaders in stress granule biology, an exciting new target for the development...

In what researchers are calling a game changer for future ataxia treatments, a new study showed the ability to turn down the disease progression of...

Credit: German Primate Center -- Leibniz Institute for Primate Research The runners are lined up at the starting line, patiently awaiting the start signal for...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A new therapeutic approach may one day delay neurodegeneration typical of a disease called mucopolysaccharidoses IIIB (MPS IIIB). Neurodegeneration in...