A defective potassium channel disrupts the brain’s navigation system
The potassium channel KCNQ3 is required for our brain to generate accurate spatial maps. In mice, defects in KCNQ3 function...
The potassium channel KCNQ3 is required for our brain to generate accurate spatial maps. In mice, defects in KCNQ3 function...
Last month, three states -- Virginia, South Dakota and Connecticut -- joined the ranks of more than a dozen others...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common of all genetic heart diseases and is the leading cause of sudden cardiac...
A drug used to treat certain advanced breast cancers may offer a new treatment option for a deadly blood cancer...
Increased air pollution in recent years has not only contributed to deteriorating environmental conditions in cities across the globe. It...
Occupational settings can involve exposure to loud noise, a known and preventable contributor to hearing loss. Hearing conservation programs and...
Findings from a new University of Kentucky College of Medicine and College of Health Sciences study add to growing evidence...
Pooled results from recent clinical trials indicate that an oral drug called roxadustat is an effective treatment for anemia in...
A licensed drug normally used to treat abnormal levels of fatty substances in the blood could reduce infection caused by...
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-associated death in the United States and worldwide. Patients with a subtype called...
Fewer than one in 20 children with symptomatic COVID-19 experienced symptoms lasting longer than 4 weeks, and almost all children...
In a newly published study, physician-scientists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have shown that the flu...
A study by an international research group identified 15 novel biomarkers that are linked to late-onset dementias. These biomarkers are...
A new treatment for advanced urothelial cancer was effective with tolerable side effects in an international, multi-center phase 2 clinical...
Researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine have shown that a targeted therapy using non-thermal radio waves is safe to...
An untapped trove of desirable drug-like molecules is hidden in the genomes of Streptomyces bacteria -- the same bacteria responsible...
A pilot study from North Carolina State University has found that a gene associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and...
Scientists have proposed a modelling framework which could predict how antibiotic resistance will evolve in response to different treatment combinations,...
Government officials and policymakers have tried to use numbers to grasp COVID-19's impact. Figures like the number of hospitalizations or...
A new MIT study of how a mammalian brain remembers what it sees shows that while individual images are stored...
When experiencing the ups and downs of a virtual roller coaster ride, people who get migraine headaches reported more dizziness...
A research team led by Wim Annaert (VIB-KU Leuven) uncovered the early assembly of gamma-secretase, a protein complex linked to...
The oral targeted therapy drug ibrutinib is an effective treatment option for high-risk hairy cell leukemia, according to a new...
As children made fewer visits to health facilities and engaged in social distancing and other COVID-19 mitigation measures, a smaller...
Did you know multiple sclerosis (MS) means multiple scars? New research shows that the brain and spinal cord scars in...
Adequate blood flow supplies the brain with oxygen and nutrients, but the oxygenation tends to fluctuate in a distinct, consistent...
University of Otago scientists have opened the door to improved treatment of brain dysfunction which causes psychosis. Dr Ryan Ward,...
A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey outlines a means to better estimate COVID-19 occurrence and trends in...
A previously unknown kind of human brain cell appears to help people center themselves in their personal maps of the...
In lab tests, Imperial researchers have created a metal-based molecule that inhibits the build-up of a peptide associated with Alzheimer's...
Bacteria's role in gut health has received a lot of attention in recent years. But new research led by scientists...
A KAIST research team and collaborators revealed a newly developed hydrogel-based flexible brain-machine interface. To study the structure of the...
MRI-guided focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles can open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and allow therapeutic drugs to reach the diseased...
A new University of Arizona Health Sciences study found women on hormone therapy were up to 58% less likely to...
A novel method of gene therapy is helping children born with a rare genetic disorder called AADC deficiency that causes...
Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's and epilepsy are but a few of the central nervous system disorders. They are also very...
Many people instinctively associate mucus with something disgusting, but in fact, it has incredibly many valuable functions for our health....
According to studies in recent years, air pollution affects the thyroid. Thyroid hormones are essential for regulating fetal growth and...
Over years of studying antibody responses against the flu in the Wilson lab at the University of Chicago, researchers kept...
A University of Arkansas researcher and international colleagues found that employed individuals, on average, are 35.3% more likely to be...
New research shows thermal imaging techniques can predict whether a wound needs extra management, offering an early alert system to...
Tests of a drug known to stimulate brain activity have shown early success in reducing symptoms of sluggish cognitive tempo...
Researchers at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center are studying a potential new chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy) treatment...
The brain is not a passive recipient of injury or disease. Research has shown that when neurons die and disrupt...
A new University of California, Irvine-led study finds that the persistence of a marker of chronic cellular stress, previously associated...
A new study by Penn State researchers, who looked at emergency room admissions across the U.S. over a recent five-year...
A year-long Australian population study has found that full time workers employed by organisations that fail to prioritise their employees'...
Jessica Damoiseaux, Ph.D., an associate professor with the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University, recently published the results of...
Globally, an estimated 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) each year and the disease remains a leading cause of death...
Two recent studies led by researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School add new evidence to the impact of...
Will a reduction in tau protein in brain neurons protect against Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementias? A new study,...
When a person is infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, it invades their cells and uses them to...
Since 2005, the guidelines for the care of unconscious cardiac arrest patients have been to cool the body temperature down...
Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease in which malignant cells form in the tissues of the pancreas, a long and...