New precision medicine tool helps optimize cancer treatment

A user-friendly computational tool has been created that rapidly predicts which genes are implicated in an…

High-mileage runners expend less energy than low-mileage runners

Runners who consistently log high mileage show more neuromuscular changes that improve running efficiency than their…

Study provides roadmap to more personalized cancer treatment

People with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and the KRAS-variant inherited genetic mutation have…

Study potentially explains vulnerability of young cancer patients to treatment toxicities

Scientists have discovered a potential explanation for why brain and heart tissues in very young children…

Biologists follow ‘fossilizable’ clues to pinpoint when mammal, bird and dinosaur ancestors became athletes

A new study is the first to draw a link between RBC size and microscopic traces…

Here’s why you don’t feel jet-lagged when you run a fever

A clump of just a few thousand brain cells, no bigger than a mustard seed, controls…

Obesity-associated protein could be linked to leukemia development

Cancer researchers have found an obesity-associated protein’s role in leukemia development and drug response which could…

Training to become a scuba diver? Start at the dentist

41 percent of scuba divers experienced dental symptoms in the water, research shows. Recreational divers should…

Thinking with our hands can help find new ways of solving problems, research reveals

New research by two cognitive psychology experts is demonstrating how our decision making is heavily influenced…

Toeing the line: Study finds brain cells that signal path of travel

Cognitive scientists say they have found neurons that help an animal align itself within a cognitive…