Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than one million people in the United States, with approximately 90,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Although ...

A team of biochemists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed a faster way to identify molecules in the ...

In a year from now, progress is to be measured in the institutionalisation of the approach with greater regulatory acceptance ...

A mechanism identified by a team from the Montreal Clinical Research Institute explains how the human brain reaches its ...

Rete ridges act like biological “Velcro,” Driskell said, anchoring the outer layer of skin, or epidermis, to the dermal layer ...

Evolution sounds like a straight climb toward better survival, but fossil records and genetic research show species sometimes ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal brain disorder caused by a defect in the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which produces an extra-long protein. This defect causes the HTT protein to form harmful clumps, or ...

The work, recently published in Nature Communications, addresses a long-standing puzzle in breast cancer biology. Scientists have known that while aging increases breast cancer risk, having a ...

Pregnancy is, biologically speaking, a state of controlled upheaval. The immune system recalibrates. Blood volume surges. And ...

A common infection may reach the eye, trigger inflammation, and worsen memory loss linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

X chromosome reactivation contributes to reducing the signs of disease in the female brain. Female cells have two X ...

Now, the planets of Tau Andromeda are overgrown with wildlife, nature reclaiming the skyscrapers of a once-advanced ...