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Pauses in cholinergic interneuron activity could be a mechanism for controlling how animals respond to external stimuli, researchers report.

Two metabolites produced by fungus from the Red Sea appear to be effective at shortening seizures in mouse models of epilepsy, researcher say.

A new study sheds light on the mechanisms behind how humans recognize and distinguish between two types of visual information. The study provides insight into the level of visual processing where pareidolia, the human ab...

Clostridium difficile infection is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in developed countries. Researchers have discovered how the C. diff toxin B recognizes the human Frizzled protein, the receptor i...

Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections, one of the most common hospital-acquired infections in children across the United States, are on the rise.

Tapeworm infection from eating contaminated pork can damage the brain, causing learning impairments and possibly enforcing cycles of poverty. A new study is the first to look at infection rates within schools and propose...

Historically, our view of host defense against infection was that we must eliminate pathogens to eradicate disease. However, this perspective has recently been challenged as scientists have taken a lesson from plant biol...

Studying the fleeting actions of electrons in organic materials will now be much easier, thanks to a new method for generating fast X-rays.

According to researchers, success in big events can help boost a nation's health and wellbeing. The study, which looked at data from people whose countries participate in the Eurovision song contest, found people were 4%...

A new analysis finds that non-invasive brain stimulation may have beneficial effects on fine motor movement in stroke patients and healthy participants.

The osteoporosis drug alendronate was linked with a reduced risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke in a study of patients with hip fractures.

A new study could have major implications for our understanding of disease processes for conditions such as autoimmunity, atherosclerosis and heart failure, potentially leading to better prevention and treatment.

A new study is the first to prospectively examine the relationship between grandparent and grandchild abdominal obesity.

A new discovery shows that opioids used to treat pain, such as morphine and oxycodone, produce their effects by binding to receptors inside neurons, contrary to conventional wisdom that they acted only on the same surfac...

Identifying dengue fever 'hot spots' can provide a predictive map for outbreaks of chikungunya and Zika -- two other viral diseases that, along with dengue, are spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Understanding Earth's species and ecosystems is a monumentally challenging scientific pursuit. But with the planet in the grip of its sixth mass extinction event, it has never been a more pressing priority. To unlock nat...

Researchers have successfully reconstructed a short movie of randomly moving discs produced by rat retinal neurons, with the help of machine learning technology.

The more types of microbes, the better off your blood vessels.

A fracton is a weird imaginary half-particle, and can only move when paired with another fracton. It sounds wild but we could make one in a crystal

These drugs kill the most people worldwide, and they're pretty familiar.

Investigators have determined that in children receiving gadolinium as a contrast agent to enhance MRI examinations, signal changes attributed solely to deposition of this material in the brain are not dependent on the a...

Researchers have developed a new technique for the powerful gene editing tool CRISPR to restore retinal function in mice afflicted by a degenerative retinal disease, retinitis pigmentosa. This is the first time researche...