A new study identifies a biological process that empowers specific brain cells to eliminate harmful proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease. By increasing the levels of a specific regulatory ...

Dogs may boost mental health by subtly reshaping the microbes in our bodies. “Adolescent children who keep dogs exhibit ...

Researchers also gathered DNA from jaguars, ocelots and margays, discovering the measures these wild cats go to in order to ...

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other ...

Vitamin C may offer meaningful protection against one of the world's invisible but pervasive health threats – fine-particle ...

A landmark review published today in Genomic Psychiatry challenges researchers to fundamentally reconsider how the field ...

New research shows that childhood environments shape lifelong memory through a single molecular switch that controls learning-related gene activity.

USC researchers have identified a previously unknown pattern of organization in one of the brain’s most important areas for ...

Growing up with a family dog during one’s teen years could boost mood and social connection due, in part, to ...

We know that pets influence our microbiome, but scientists have now found that having a dog seems to change this ecosystem in ...

This study presents a large, systematically curated catalog of non-canonical open reading frames (ncORFs) in human and mouse by reanalyzing nearly 400 Ribo-seq datasets using a standardized pipeline; ...

The Major Histocompatibility Complex region evolves via gene birth-and-death, resulting in short-lived genes, rapidly expanding gene subfamilies, and many gene fragments.