Month: July 2011

Researchers have found that a “fountain of youth” that sustains the production of new neurons…

A study examining the brain of a person with object agnosia, a defect in the…

Scientists have known for some time that the hormone leptin acts in the brain to…

Researchers have probed deeper into human evolution by developing an elegant new technique to analyze…

Scientists have discovered a novel compound that selectively kills cancer cells by blocking their response…

More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes soil to release the potent greenhouse gases methane…

The addition of two particular gene snippets to a skin cell’s usual genetic material is…

Targeted therapies that are designed to suppress the formation of new blood vessels in tumors,…

Neuroscientists have examined the brain of a person with object agnosia, a deficit in the…

Hospitalized patients who had conversations about religion and spirituality with the health-care team were the…