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A new study shows in an emergency, 52 percent of adults with potentially life-threatening allergies didn't use the epinephrine auto-injectors (EAI) they were prescribed.

There's an enormous, fast-moving explosion in space unlike anything we've seen before, and astronomers around the world are scrambling to figure out what it is

Remaining anonymous online is an increasingly difficult task. Just four geotagged posts is enough to identify trolls from a phone company's database

Body dissatisfaction among women is widespread and can lead to a number of worrisome outcomes, including eating disorders, depression and anxiety. While researchers know a lot about what makes women's body image worse, t...

The key to better treatments for brain injuries and disease may lie in the molecules charged with preventing the clumping of specific proteins associated with cognitive decline and other neurological problems, researcher...

A pioneering technique developed to analyze genetic activity of Antarctic worms is helping to predict cerebral palsy. The technique uses next-generation genetic sequencing data to measure how cells control the way genes ...

Researchers describe the molecular mechanisms behind ketamine's ability to squash depression and keep it at bay.

The innate immune system, our first line of defense against bacterial infection, has a side job that's equally important: fine-tuning our metabolism.

A new study shows that a group of neurons, previously thought to die in the course of development, in fact become incorporated into the brain's cortex. This research has implications for understanding -- and possibly tre...

A new meta analysis study reveals a year of schooling not only boosts a person's knowledge, it is also associated with a noticeable increase in IQ.

Unlike food fussiness, genetics only plays a small part in a young child's emotional eating patterns. Researchers say emotional eating is influenced by parents and the home environment.

A new study provides a description of metals in the brain that may drive the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers report removing children from their parents can be detrimental for normal brain development, as well as having lasting psychological impact. The paper reports the Zero Tolerance immigration policy may cause t...

Several conditions including anxiety, depression and anorexia all share a common set of genes, which could lead to better diagnoses

The work has important implications for understanding how human cancer cells develop resistance to natural product-based chemotherapies.

Researchers have matched small proteins, called peptides, with antibiotics so they can work together to combat hard-to-treat infections that don't respond well to drugs on their own.

Opioids are powerful painkillers that act on the brain, but they have a range of harmful side effects including addiction. Researchers have developed a tool that gives deeper insights into the brain's response to opioids...

Researchers explored the genetic connections between brain disorders at a scale far eclipsing previous work on the subject. The team determined that psychiatric disorders share many genetic variants, while neurological d...

African weakly electric fish, commonly called baby whales, use incredibly brief electrical pulses to sense the world around them and communicate with other members of their species. Part of that electrical mechanism exis...

Researchers discover that stimulating the prefrontal cortex can induce wake-like behavior in anesthetized rats.

A so-called 'jumping gene' that researchers long considered either genetic junk or a pernicious parasite is actually a critical regulator of the first stages of embryonic development, according to a new study.

Changes in a brain signalling system contribute to the development of alcohol addiction-like behaviors in rats, according to a new study. The findings indicate a similar mechanism in humans.