FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- You've heard of Christmas Tree Lane and Candy Cane Lane, but at a house in northeast Fresno, you'll find Nick and his bag full of tricks. No, not Saint Nick, but Nick Funk. "I ...

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have identified a mechanism that protects the female brain from genetic diseases. Although one of the two X chromosomes is ...

A 27-year-old Uzbek woman with ovarian cancer underwent successful brain surgery to repair a rare outward brain herniation ...

CHAPEL HILL – For decades, scientists have thought the faulty neural wiring that predisposes individuals to behavioral disorders like autism and psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia must occur ...

A direct causal link between Zika virus infection in pregnant women and the brain damaging birth defect has been registered by a study. But while preliminary findings from the first 32 cases involved ...

Nicotine induced defects in the frog embryo brain (center) can be rescued by transplanting an HCN2 expressing patch on the embryo far from the brain. Treated embryos are observed to have normal brain ...

X chromosome reactivation contributes to reducing the signs of disease in the female brain. Female cells have two X ...

Many studies have linked more sleep to better memory, but new research in fruit flies demonstrates that extra sleep helps the brain overcome catastrophic neurological defects that otherwise would ...

In a new study, Yale Cancer Center researchers identified a novel genetic defect that prevents brain tumor cells from repairing damaged DNA. They found that the defect is highly sensitive to an ...