A new study reveals that astrocytes—star-shaped support cells traditionally viewed as passive partners of neurons—play a ...

About 40% of East Asians suffer from alcohol intolerance, known as "Asian Flush Syndrome," caused by an ALDH2 genetic ...

The alternative medicine industry is expanding rapidly, fueled in large part by the surge of health-related content on social ...

A new study published in Neurology, led by Queen Mary University of London, has revealed that people of South Asian, African ...

The prevalence of congenital heart disease points to the need for a better understanding of how it influences ...

A clear pattern emerged: For each additional hassler a person regularly interacted with, their pace of biological aging ...

While the rate of HIV in Kampala, Uganda, is more than double the national average, a recent survey of displaced youths in ...

A Mediterranean diet can significantly lower the risk of hip and overall fractures, according to a major new review from the ...

Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cell therapy represents a milestone in leukemia treatment. CAR T works by genetically ...

A single session of physical exercise can spawn a boost of neural activity in brain networks that underlie learning and ...

The healing of the spinal cord depends on carefully timed interactions between injured nerve cells and their surrounding environment, according to a study published in Science Advances by researchers ...

Until now, conventional 3D cell cultures have often been either too rigid or too unstable to realistically reproduce the ...