Your skin is in a constant state of reinvention. Every month, your body sheds and regenerates its entire outer layer—a ...

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 ...

Having a dog doesn’t only mean companionship, fun playtime, and long walks. According to a new study, it can also transform ...

WATERTOWN — If a hunter can’t find it, more than likely Brent Bast will. Bast, 51 built a unique niche for himself when he ...

Scientists learn about the brain's inner workings by studying what animals or people do, how they move, react, and make choices. Behaviour is complex ...

Studies in mice that model Huntington’s disease suggest that prebiotics – the food that feeds our gut bacteria – might ...

Tiny immune cells called microglia protect the central nervous system (CNS) in a multitude of ways: They provide innate ...

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

Research shows that women’s gas smells worse than men’s, and there’s a scientific reason why. But next time you catch a whiff ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered the adaptive significance of the remarkable waste-management behavior in the social spider mite Stigmaeopsis longus, a tiny herbivorous arthropod ...

There have been major outbreaks of a condition called epidemic dropsy after people consumed mustard oil mixed with oil made from the poppy. This has previously been reported in South Africa, India and ...

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