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A combination of human stem cell transplantation and antidiabetic drugs proved to be highly effective at improving body weight and glucose metabolism in a mouse...

The spinal cord transmits pain signals to the brain, where they are consciously perceived. But not all the impulses arrive at their destination: Certain neurons...

A pioneering class of drugs that target cancers with mutations in the BRCA breast cancer genes could also work against tumours with another type of...

Wei Tang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at New Mexico State University, is taking a cue from nature to devise the next generation...

Rodents infected with a common parasite lose their fear of cats, resulting in easy meals for the felines. Now IU School of Medicine researchers have...

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have successfully tested a potent synthetic compound that prevents type 1 diabetes in animal...

A 3-D printing technology developed by Silicon Valley startup, Carbon3D Inc., enables objects to rise from a liquid media continuously rather than being built layer...

Tiny particles embedded in gel can turn off drug-resistance genes, then release cancer drugs. Chemotherapy often shrinks tumors at first, but as cancer cells become...

Neuroscientists find that different parts of the brain work best at different ages. Scientists have long known that our ability to think quickly and recall...

Research from McGill University reveals that the brain’s motor network helps people remember and recognize music that they have performed in the past better than...

A good immune system relies on a key 'energy producing' protein in immune cells to develop immunity to vaccines and disease, an international team of...

A trained scent dog accurately identified whether patients' urine samples had thyroid cancer or were benign (noncancerous) 88.2 percent of the time, according to a...

In the absence of food, neurons that normally control appetite initiate complex, repetitive behaviors seen in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and anorexia nervosa, according to a...