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A research team led by Indiana University School of Medicine scientists has discovered a new method for reducing the formation of amyloid plaques, which disrupt brain function in all aging adults but are particularly prevalent ...

A surprising feature of how the brain stores memories could help explain why harmless situations can sometimes quickly feel threatening, a hallmark of anxiety and trauma disorders.

Contrary to popular belief, the postmenopausal ovary is not defunct. In a new study of ovaries from 28 women, scientists at Northwestern University and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging found that in the decades well ...

Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered how a common genetic mutation disrupts the positioning of a key protein during cell division, revealing a new mechanism behind acute myeloid leukemia and a potential ...

When learning how to perform new movements, our brains etch the details in our minds as we master the new task. From a young child learning to play the piano to a novice pickleball player getting familiar with the sport's ...

The dementia associated with Parkinson's disease could be diagnosed earlier with new visual tests developed by University of Queensland researchers. Neurologist Peter Nestor from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute and Mater ...

New research from scientists at the University of Toronto, the Sloan Kettering Institute, King's College London (KCL) and the Francis Crick Institute is helping piece together the missing genetics of autism spectrum disorder ...

When patients are diagnosed with certain brain tumors, one of the biggest unanswered questions is what happens when the cancer returns. Among those are IDH-mutant gliomas, a group of brain tumors that invariably recur despite ...

Cancer cachexia has long been one of oncology's most stubborn unsolved problems. This severe, uncontrollable wasting affects roughly half of all cancer patients. It makes treatment harder to tolerate, erodes a person's quality ...

Colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of cancer-related death for people under 50. Its most common forms generally aren't treatable, either through conventional means like chemotherapy or newer immunotherapy drugs.

In Ewing sarcoma, an abnormal protein formed by the fusion of two genes can activate repetitive DNA regions that normally remain silenced and turn them into gene regulatory elements. This mechanism contributes significantly ...

The placenta, the temporary organ that forms during pregnancy to carry oxygen and nutrients from mother to baby, is vital to healthy gestation, yet it remains understudied. While its function and purpose are well established, ...