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Humans and other mammals cycle through distinct sleep phases. One of them is easily recognized by the darting motion of the eyes behind closed lids, giving it its name: REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. This is the state in ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to help scientists accelerate drug discovery and search for new treatments. But for AI tools to work effectively, researchers need to know whether they can be validated and ...

All types of brain cancers collectively have a five-year survival rate of just 33%, according to the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. For a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma, ...

A finger prick blood test combined with online brain testing—all done from home—could one day effectively identify people's risk of developing dementia, according to a new study.

A type of drug used to prevent migraine may be associated with a reduced risk of glaucoma, according to a study published in Neurology. The study compared 36,822 people who took calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) inhibitor ...

Movement is good for us, as we all know. But many people do not engage in enough physical activity in their daily lives. Because knowledge of the positive effects of movement is clearly not sufficient to induce changes in ...

Lithium chloride may affect many cellular level changes in Alzheimer's disease, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) shows. The work is published in the journal Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.

Current evidence does not support direct (causal) associations between aluminum-adjuvant vaccines and serious or long-term health outcomes, including autism, diabetes and asthma, finds a review of the latest data published ...

Inside every human cell, proteins are constantly being tagged with small chemical modifications after they're produced. Known as post-translational modifications, or PTMs, these can change how a protein folds, where it travels ...

New research shows that the same genes are active in pancreatic cancer, obesity and diabetes, helping to explain why people with metabolic disease often face poorer cancer outcomes and pointing to future ways to predict recurrence ...

In a finding that challenges decades of assumptions about blood cancer, an international research team has shown for the first time that a specific subtype of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), which is the most common ...

Nationwide, young people ages 18–24 are the heaviest users of e-cigarettes, with 38.4% of youth reporting habitual use. E-cigarettes are also very popular in Western New York, with significantly higher use than in New York ...