A team of scientists led by the University College London (UCL) has explored how the brain manages synaptic connections ...

As climate change brings more intense heat waves, scientists are trying to understand how certain medications interact with ...

During the first half of sleep, the brain actively weakens the synaptic connections formed during wakefulness, supporting the ...

During sleep, the brain weakens the new connections between neurons that had been forged while awake—but only during the ...

Sleep is the salve that kick-starts our every day. Without the right quota we stumble through, ragged and depleted. But ...

The interaction between homeostasis-disturbing stressors and stressor-activated adaptive responses of the organism can have three potential outcomes. First, the match may be perfect and the ...

Dysregulated R-loops can cause stalled replication forks and telomere instability. However, how R-loops are recognized and ...

Bromodomain-containing protein 7 (BRD7) was initially identified as a tumor suppressor, but further research has shown it has ...

The cells of the transplanted organ will perform their expected function, but they also play a role elsewhere in the body ...

A team of researchers revealed the significance of a particular protein complex in some types of immunological dysregulation.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center discover a mechanism to enhance the fitness of cells against aging and neurodegenerative diseases. This finding will pave the way for novel therapeutic ...

With $200 million and three drugs in or near clinical trials, a spinout of BridgeBio Pharma Inc. aims to flip the switch on a ...