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Genetic treatments could be the key to unlocking some rare diseases. But bringing these medicines to patients involves ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...

Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new ...

Scientists have found that combining silybin with carvedilol works far better against liver fibrosis than either drug alone.

New research shows that a deeply ancient part of the brain can process visual information on its own, without help from the cortex. Scientists found that the superior colliculus, a structure shared by ...

Gastric cancer cells can activate KRAS-driven signals, enabling autonomous tumor growth by producing their own WNT proteins. New research reveals how gastric cancer cells exploit WNT signaling for ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease characterized by nerve damage and consequent impairments in vision, ...

Ever bitten into a hot pie, yelped "Hothothot!" then had your taste buds go on strike for the next week? Taste buds are a ...

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

Biologists have long treated cell membranes as passive barriers, thin skins that separate the chemistry of life from the ...