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To enable movement, perception, memory, reasoning, emotion and various other functions, the human brain heavily relies on communication between different regions. This communication also takes place via white matter, tissue ...

Pioneering research shows that the brains of people who are deaf from an early age rewire to see more of what is happening in their visual periphery, new research has revealed.

Creatine has become one of the most talked-about supplements for building muscle, boosting performance and supporting healthy aging. New research from Texas A&M University suggests its potential benefits may be especially ...

Millions of people around the globe might never know the taste of a PB&J sandwich or crème brûlée because of severe peanut and egg allergies. For a long time, avoiding exposure to allergy-causing foods early in life was considered ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds ...

Minimally invasive surgery is a promising approach that allows doctors to intervene inside the body through small incisions, typically using advanced instruments. These can include small robotic instruments controlled by ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown gene that causes resistance to a leading blood cancer drug, as well as several genes that accelerate lymphoma growth, using a powerful new CRISPR activation library.

In the sickest COVID-19 patients, SARS-CoV-2 doesn't just cause severe damage by directly infecting airway cells. The virus can also trigger hyperinflammation—a cycle in which immune cells themselves become infected, stop ...

Every time a person sees a doctor, the visit produces two kinds of records. There are the tidy checkbox fields: the billing codes, the lab values, the prescription entries. And there is the note the clinician actually writes, ...

When mice heard a sound they thought signaled danger, they moved closer to a familiar companion, according to Virginia Tech researchers. They did not do the same when paired with a mouse they didn't know. The study, led by ...

An international team led by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany has created a detailed map of the molecular activity underlying ...

Why do food cravings become so strong during pregnancy? Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in collaboration with colleagues, have identified a brain mechanism that may help explain how pregnancy changes ...