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Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington In the quest to restore movement to people with spinal cord injuries, researchers have focused on getting brain signals to...

Credit: TTUHSC El Paso EL PASO, Texas – Haoquan Wu, Ph.D., has received a two-year, $420,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (Jan. 10, 2018) Potentially explaining why even healthy brains don't function well with age, Salk researchers have discovered that...

Stanford, CA–Everyone who took high school biology learned that photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and select bacteria transform the Sun's energy into...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In matters of the fundamental molecular biology of aging, we mammals are not so different from tiny C. elegans worms. Some of...

IMAGE: This is Dr. David Terris Credit: Augusta University Senior Photographer Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. – A standardized treatment approach that starts with good screening...

People with a specific variation in the CLOCK gene have more migraines under financial stress. This work, the first time that the genetics of circadian...

Credit: Strandburg-Peshkin et al. When deciding what path to take during collective movement, individual baboons will likely follow the road most travelled by their group...

Scientists at the MaxDelbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) and the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) in Berlin, in cooperation with...

IMAGE: This image shows the birds studied by Lam and colleagues. Credit: Kelsey Bell Every spring and fall, migratory songbirds around the world make epic...

Credit: Photo: Stefan Braun. Graphic modified from Wikipedia and www.genesandhealth.org. Researchers at the Center for Geomicrobiology at Aarhus University, Denmark, have sequenced the genomes of...

The molecule has proved in preclinical trials to be up to four times more effective than the only pharmacological treatment currently available for familial transthyretin...

Credit: Mingqiang Wang New members have joined the ranks of the snout moths – one of the largest groups within the insect order known formally...

Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics has made scientific history by determining the first three-dimensional image of a protein linked to the spread of cancer. The...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A team of researchers from Florida State University, Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health has found existing drug compounds...