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(University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center) To understand brain functions, it is necessary to first map how different cells and cell parts interact in three-dimensions. Doing so with existing equipme...

(JAMA Network) Nationally representative surveys from 2018 and 2019 were used to examine the views of adults in the rural US on the serious health and economic problems facing their communities, including the cost and ac...

A new study suggests that human neurons may have more computing power than once thought.

This new detection—the second of its kind—raises new questions about the nature of these mysterious objects --

New technology employing single cell genome sequencing of the parasite that causes malaria has yielded some surprising results and helps pave the way for possible new intervention strategies for this deadly infectious di...

A preliminary study has found that when young, healthy men were deprived of just one night of sleep, they had higher levels of tau -- a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease -- in their blood than when they had a full, unint...

Scientists have identified synergistic cellular pathways for longevity that amplify lifespan fivefold in C. elegans, a nematode worm used as a model in aging research. The increase in lifespan would be the equivalent of ...

A new study puts researchers within closer reach of vaccines that can protect infants against infections by overcoming a mother's antibodies, which are known to shut down immune defenses initiated by conventional vaccine...

A study of seven wastewater treatment plants in the Eastern United States points to two treatment methods -- granular activated carbon and ozonation -- as particularly promising. Each technique reduced the concentration ...

Researchers have reported the first structural model for a key enzyme, and its activating protein, that can play a role in some genetically inherited eye diseases like retinitis pigmentosa and night blindness.

Mitochondrial damage is increasingly recognized as a key factor underlying neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS. A new screening platform has identified a set of drug-like compounds that...

Using a genomics strain-tracking bioinformatics tool, researchers investigated whether shared bacterial strains remain stable and resilient to changes in diet or environment after adult twins -- who had lived together fo...

Researchers assessed the time trends in alcohol and marijuana detected in homicide victims and found that the prevalence of marijuana almost doubled, increasing from 22 percent in 2004 to 42 percent in 2016. Alternately,...

Study shows drug SVC112 stops production of proteins that cancer stem cells need to survive and grow.

Electric scooters are increasingly part of the crowded urban landscape, but a new study has found a major surge of injuries related to scooters, particularly among young adults.

Using an exome molecular autopsy, researchers conducted genetic testing of four siblings who each died suddenly during exercise.

A research team has revealed a new mechanism which controls the causes of infection with H. pylori, triggering the development of stomach diseases. It is hoped that these findings will lead in time to new therapies.

Over the last 20 years, three families have been unsuspectingly linked by an unknown illness. Researchers have now identified the cause of the illness, a new disease called CRIA syndrome.

For the first time, researchers have mapped years of education and child malnutrition across all low- and middle-income countries at the level of individual districts. The findings include precision maps illuminating dis...

New viruses which cause diseases often come from animals. Well-known examples of this are the Zika virus transmitted by mosquitoes, bird flu viruses, as well as the MERS virus which is associated with camels. In order to...

A new model suggests that the star Betelgeuse committed an act of cannibalism.

More than half of us breathe the wrong way, missing out on many benefits from better health to altered consciousness. Here's how to do it right