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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...

It has a funny name – coxsackievirus – but there's nothing funny about how this tiny germ and its close relatives sicken their hosts. Colorado...

Credit: World Scientific Although infinitely diverse and complex in their details, sedimentary coasts nevertheless share many morphological features, which often follow surprisingly simple laws. Thes..

Credit: Richard Wrangham MADISON, Wis. — In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation. That's why...