Discovery illuminates how Parkinson's disease spreads in the brain

Aggregates of the protein alpha-synuclein spread in the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease through a…

Discovery explains cancer chemotherapy resistance, offers solution

Researchers have uncovered a novel pathway that explains how cancer cells become resistant to chemotherapies, which…

Fish to help in search for MS drugs

The zebrafish serves as a model organism for researchers around the world: it can be used…

Malaria spike linked to amphibian die-off

A new study links an amphibian die-off in Costa Rica and Panama with a spike in…

How the brain develops: A new way to shed light on cognition

Researchers introduce a new neurocomputational model of the human brain that could bridge the gap in…

Don't look at me like that!

Does eye-contact always attract attention? Not in every case, as a research team has recently shown.…

Genetic variants linked to congenital urinary tract obstruction in males

Genetic variation affecting developmental genes not previously linked to urethral development may contribute to a congenital…

Tumors form temporary structures to avoid immunotherapy treatments

Scientists have shown how tumor cells evade immunotherapy by generating unique, temporary cell-in-cell structures, where the…

Did my computer say it best?

With autocorrect and auto-generated email responses, algorithms offer plenty of assistance to help people express themselves.…

High-fat diets trigger inflammatory immune cell generation in bone

Scientists have shown that high-fat diets can cause rapid changes in the bone marrow of mice,…