Scientists have created synthetic yeast that converts human urine into a valuable bone implant material, while also reducing ...

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Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire ...

The population across developed countries is getting older and the associated frailty and debilitation are becoming major ...

Researchers in South Korea have found that the contamination by small amounts of soldering flux residues during ...

Huntington’s disease is a rare genetic disorder affecting movement, memory, and mood. Here’s what we know—and what’s ahead.

Using a newly devised, three-dimensional model to study the regeneration of nerve tissue in the nose, researchers at Tufts ...

Mitochondria supply the body with the energy currency adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which drives all bodily activities. For ...

The HHS secretary said people should have access to experimental therapies including unregulated uses of stem cells. But some ...

The Vector-HaSH model reveals how place cells and grid cells help with memory storage, by indexing without erasing previous ...

New research reveals that individual neurons in the hippocampus can respond to both slow and fast brain waves at the same ...

Driven, athletic, and a role model to his community, 20-year-old Eddie Kaufman has been fighting an aggressive form of blood ...