Researchers combined animal models, human brain tissue, and molecular analysis to uncover a connection between Alzheimer's ...

People who carry a certain variation of this repeated DNA sequence have more than double the risk (2.2 times higher)of ...

Research by the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Research Center proposes that a common herpes virus may travel through the body ...

Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Illana Gozes, examined the effects of different mutations in the ADNP protein, which is essential for normal brain development and aging, on the brain ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have created the first comprehensive protein-level atlas of brain development, ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have observed a young stellar object known ...

A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans, scientists say. And it changes how mice squeak.

Addressing the harmful chemical processes that accompany blunt force trauma to the brain can reduce the risk of long-term ...

Federal funding is enabling biomedical engineer Jamie Spangler and her team to develop innovative treatments for autoimmune ...

Researchers have revealed how Staphylococcus aureus bacteria extract iron from hemoglobin—a process crucial to their survival ...