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A new study documents the prolonged and difficult path patients face before they are diagnosed with mitochondrial diseases, a group of rare, debilitating genetic disorders.

Plaques of a brain protein called amyloid beta are a characteristic sign of Alzheimer's disease. But nestled within the plaques are small amounts of another Alzheimer's protein: APOE. Now, researchers have shown that an ...

The acute viral bronchiolitis is the worldwide leading cause of hospitalization during the first year of life. A study crosses data from patients' genetic variations with the disease's different viruses and their respect...

You can hear the perfect hello. And now you can see it too. Researchers have established an experimental method that unveils the filter (mental representation) we use to judge people when hearing them. What is the ideal ...

Scientists are testing a promising drug that may stop a gene associated with obesity from triggering breast and lung cancer, as well as prevent these cancers from growing.

Optimizing the timing of targeted therapies for melanoma reverses tumor growth, and resistance can be mitigated.

New research does not support the previously observed negative impacts of antidepressant use on breastfeeding.

Age related sleep disruptions are not due to alterations in activity of individual neurons as previously believed, researchers report.

A new study sheds light on the process of vesicle recycling

According to a new Frontiers in Neuroscience study, children who participate in structured music lessons showed enhancements in cognitive abilities over their peers who did not receive music lessons. The researchers note...

A new neuroimaging study of war veterans with TBI reveals some interesting insights into brain areas associated with altruism.

Children as young as four years old with symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) showed reduced brain volumes in regions essential for behavioral control, according to a new study. The research repres...

Between 30 and 40 percent of human breast cancers express a defective (mutant) form of p53, a protein that helps cancer cells proliferate and grow. Researchers found that combining a cancer therapy, which activates p53 a...

The availability of livestock as a food source for vampire bats influences their immune response and infection by bacterial pathogens, according to a new article. Because cattle ranching is common in areas where the bats...

Biologists and geneticists have uncovered how the circadian clock orchestrates the 24-hour cycle of gene expression by regulating the structure of chromatin, the tightly wound DNA-protein complex of the cell. The work is...

Researchers developed an in vivo mutation prevention method that enables the DNA-cleaving Cas9 enzyme to discriminate between genomic target sites differing by a single nucleotide and to exclusively cut the unwanted one....

Clinical investigators describe a new visor-like device that detects emergent large-vessel occlusion with 92 percent accuracy. In such cases, emergency medical personnel transfer patients directly to a comprehensive stro...

Researchers describe their success in an animal model in turning off the excruciating pain that often accompanies a colorectal cancer drug.

When an imminent threat means troops need to move, sometimes the most powerful cover is a smokescreen. Not a figurative smokescreen, but an actual burst of smoke that hides soldiers--and even tanks--from enemy eyes. Comm...

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital have used rapid genome sequencing to diagnose disorders in children in intensive care, and give them better treatments

Black holes may spit out energy in the form of radio waves in direct proportion to the amount of mass the black holes consume, new data suggests.

UC Berkeley engineers have built a bright-light emitting device that is millimeters wide and fully transparent when turned off. The light emitting material in this device is a monolayer semiconductor, which is just three...