What makes someone a "morning lark" or a "night owl?" Why does jet lag hit us so hard, and why do some people struggle each ...

New nerve cell connections on sensory cells in mice could be at fault Conventional wisdom has long blamed age-related hearing loss almost entirely on the death of sensory hair cells in the inner ear, ...

Researchers combined advanced imaging techniques with a computational method to probe how immune cells interact with each other, revealing that the interactions between immune cells in the vicinity of ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular ...

Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called synapses, according to an upcoming study led by Stanford Medicine ...

Dr. Daniel Pompa’s recent Instagram insights have highlighted a fascinating phenomenon that bridges the gap between our emotions and cellular health, demonstrating how psychological stress directly ...

When Doug Woods, a student at the University of South Carolina, swabbed his cheek at a sorority philanthropy event, he thought it was just a simple act of kindness—one that would likely go unnoticed.

Stem cells persist in the adult mammalian brain and generate new neurons throughout life. A research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel reports in the current issue of "Science" that ...

One of the most exciting and clinically relevant areas of neuropsychiatric research involves "neuroplasticity." What is neuroplasticity? Neuroplasticity refers to the processes by which the brain ...

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory have developed a new combination of imaging and computational methods to study connections between immune cells in breast cancer and melanoma “Researchers have ...