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Researchers report the motor cortex is only essential for motor control when movements are...
Scientists have demonstrated that the motor cortex is necessary for the execution of corrective movements in response to unexpected changes of sensory input but...
Researchers advise caution as a commercial-scale nuclear reactor known as HTR-PM prepares to become...
Construction of the Xipu fast neutron reactor nuclear power demonstrative project in east China’s Fujian province is designed to start at the end of 2017,...
As soon as a baby is born, its immune system starts to change dramatically...
As soon as a baby is born, its immune system starts to change dramatically in response to the pathogens in its new environment, a...
natural sugar called trehalose blocks glucose from the liver and activates a gene that...
"In mice, this gene is turned on as part of what seems to be the normal fasting response.
Our data suggest that fasting—or giving trehalose...
A new combination of existing drugs shows promise that it could reduce the size...
As cancer patients know all too well, many highly effective anti-cancer drugs don't stay effective long. Most tumors will become drug resistant over time as their cells rapidly...
It may be possible in the future to screen patients for Alzheimer’s disease using...
Using technology similar to what is found in many eye doctors' offices, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have detected...
Inflammation from chronic skin injury can trigger cancer-causing mutations as well by a totally...
It is well known that extended exposure to the sun's UV rays can cause DNA mutations that lead to skin cancer. Now new research...
Blood vessels instruct the proper development of neuronal cellular networks in the brain
Function and homeostasis of the brain relies on communication between its complex network of cells. Consequently, development of the different groups of cells in...
National Institutes of Health Roadmap Epigenomics Project has discovered that DNA methylation involved in...
Every cell in our body has the same set of genes, or genome, and can potentially become any type of cell. During development, the...
Pay attention to the ‘noise’ in your brain – reflects important changes in the...
ake a look at your favorite mug; it probably looks the same as it always has, but your neurons may not think so. Neurons...
Testing how well people remember past events in their lives could help medical professionals...
Researchers administered an "autobiographical memory" test to a group of 35 healthy adults, about half of whom carry the gene variant APOE e4—a known...
A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol
The study, published today in the international medical journal The Lancet, shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths globally were attributed to alcohol...
Turning up the thermostat may help manage hypertension
Turning up the thermostat may help manage hypertension, finds a new UCL study into the link between indoor temperatures and high blood pressure.
Comparing blood...
Tobacco smuggling : research uncovers ‘one of the tobacco industry’s greatest scams’
Two new studies from the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, published in the BMJ journal, Tobacco Control, expose evidence that...
Engineers at the center have taught a computer how to detect tiny specks of...
Doctors may soon have help in the fight against cancer thanks to the University of Central Florida's Computer Vision Research Center.
Engineers at the center...
