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Credit: Tohoku University Osaka – Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, with up to 10 million people affected worldwide. PD is...

With millions of motorists set to hit the road for the bank holiday weekend, drivers have been urged to close windows and turn off fans...

Credit: University of Maryland School of Medicine BALTIMORE – Nov. 30, 2017. A research team led by Mohit N. Gilotra, MD, assistant professor of orthopaedics...

Credit: L.A. Cicero When we are in a deep slumber our brain's activity ebbs and flows in big, obvious waves, like watching a tide of...

IMAGE: The project coordinator, Assistant Professor Mirko Rossi is in the back. In front, from the left are Docent Janne Lunden, Ph.D. Ann-Katrin Llarena, Professor...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — If two clinicians observe the same patient with blepharospasm — uncontrollable muscle contractions around the eye — they'll often...

PHILADELPHIA – Researchers are getting closer to learning how to turn white fat cells into brown fat cells, in a process called "beiging," to bring...

Credit: Robert Judson and Fabio Rossi Researchers have discovered a new technique that overcomes one of the major challenges of stem cell therapy. A drug,...

Credit: Tontonoz lab/UCLA New UCLA research could help explain the link between a high-cholesterol diet and an elevated risk for colon cancer. In a study...

Credit: Samah Jassam New model may help science overcome the brain's fortress-like barrier Scientists have helped provide a way to better understand how to enable...

Credit: University of Helsinki. The early evolution of snakes happened from surface-terrestrial to burrowing in the lizard-snake transition suggests a research group at the University...

Credit: University of Houston The symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (known as SLE or lupus) can fool you. You might think you're tired or have...

Credit: NIPS/NINS Researchers centered at Japan's National Institute for Physiological Sciences reveal details of the structure of compacted DNA transiently formed at the time of...

Credit: Zach Veilleux/The Rockefeller University Some microbes can form memories–although, inconveniently for scientists who study the process, they don't do it very often. Rockefeller Universi..

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Results of a 303-patient, multi-national phase III clinical trial known as ALEX published today in the New England Journal...