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Scientists have discovered a human antibody that protected mice from infection with the deadliest malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. The research findings provide the basis for future testing in humans to determine...

Daily weather patterns, brain activity on an EEG (electroencephalogram) and heartbeats on an EKG (electrocardiogram) each generate lines of complex data. To analyze this data, perhaps to predict a storm, seizure or heart...

A medicine that slows balding and stimulates hair growth also may make stiff vessels more stretchy and improve blood flow to vital organs like the brain, according to an experimental model study.

Researchers report myelin continues to form and restructure in the adult brain.

A new study links increased time spent on social media by 10 year old girls to a decline in wellbeing at the age of 15.

Researchers establish SCN3A genetic mutations cause infantile epileptic encephalopathy.

The bottom quark may lead physicists on a path to new discoveries. The Standard Model of particle physics has been developed over several decades to describe the properties and interactions of elementary particles. The m...

Researchers report inflammation driven by obesity reduces the number of taste buds in mice. As a result, obese mice had a diminished sense of taste.

Previous studies have indicated that weight gain can reduce one's sensitivity to the taste of food. Now a new study shows that inflammation, driven by obesity, actually reduces the number of taste buds on the tongues of ...

Researchers have found that typically-developing children gain more neurons in a region of the brain that governs social and emotional behavior, the amygdala, as they become adults. This phenomenon does not happen in peo...

In a recent study, a group of scientists reveals both the widespread distribution and broad-spectrum resistance potential of D-stereospecific peptidases, providing a potential early indicator of antibiotic resistance to ...

Research with postmenopausal women, found a 57.8 percent rate of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among women presenting vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency. MetS affects half of United States' female population above the age...

A new PNAS study reveals typically developing children experience neurogenesis in the amygdala as they become adults. However, for those with autism, the amygdala loses neurons as they age.

A new fruit fly study reveals how learned auditory cues can alter mating behavior and sexual preference.

A genetically engineered yeast makes beer that tastes of hops, without using any hops - and it could make beer cheaper and more environmentally friendly

A hydrogel that is adept at helping the body heal may also be particularly good at treating wounds related to diabetes.

Exercise in the future could be customized for individuals based on genomics, according to a new study. For years, scientists have studied the effects of different types of exercise on the human body, but never before at...

Umbrellas and galoshes will shield you from the rain, snow and hail -- but what about the showers of spiders, satellites, and raw mystery meat?

Steven Hawking's ashes will be buried near the graves of fellow British scientists Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey, it was announced Tuesday.

Slashing pigs with swords doesn't sound like science. But that's exactly what scientists had volunteers do — hack away at a pig carcass with a Japanese samurai sword called a katana.

Researchers have discovered a 'missing mutation' in severe infant epilepsy -- long-suspected genetic changes that might trigger overactive, brain-damaging electrical signaling leading to seizures. They also found early i...

New findings in mice suggest that the lack of a copy of the gene MVP may contribute to the symptoms of 16p11.2 deletion syndrome because it is needed for brain circuits to incorporate changes driven by experience.