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When it comes to learning from mistakes, humans and rats may think alike, research suggests. The findings suggest rats could be a model for studying human adaptive control, the process of modifying choices based on exper...

What happens when the brain recognizes an error? A new study shows that the brains of humans and rats adapt in a similar way to errors by using low-frequency brainwaves in the medial frontal cortex to synchronize neurons...

Patients with cancers driven by the protein KRAS, which are particularly hard to treat, may benefit from small molecules that attach to and disrupt the function of a KRAS-containing protein complex.

The investigational showed promise in preclinical studies and provides hope for patients with advanced lung cancers that have become resistant to existing EGFR inhibitors.

An investigational drug has the potential to become a new treatment option for patients who have lung cancer harboring abnormalities in the ALK gene.

In a biological quirk that promises to provide researchers with a new approach for studying and potentially treating Fragile X syndrome, scientists have shown that knocking out a gene important for messenger RNA translat...

Scientists have found a novel and unexpected molecular switch that could become a key to slowing some of the ravages of getting older as it prompts blood stem cells to age.

Research scientists have linked an inherited gene variation to a nearly four-fold increased risk of developing a pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) subtype that is associated with a poor outcome.

Revealing influenza's truly insidious nature, scientists have discovered that the virus is able to infect its host by first killing off the cells of the immune system that are actually best equipped to neutralize the vir...

Fields of bright, blooming sunflowers are a sure sign of summer turning into autumn in many areas around the world where they are grown. See photos and learn about sunflowers here.

The addictiveness of Oreos, the mystery of the Yeti and the meteorite found in a Russian lake are just a few of the cool things we found in Science this week.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins researchers used suction to learn that individual "molecular muscles" within cells respond to different types of force, a finding that may explain how cells "feel" the environment a...

(DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory) Scientists have developed a general approach for combining different types of nanoparticles to produce large-scale composite materials. The technique opens many opportunities for mixi...

(University of Massachusetts Medical School) In a biological quirk that promises to provide researchers with a new approach for studying and potentially treating Fragile X syndrome, scientists at the University of Massac...