In December 2015 an international group of scientists convened to discuss the imminent extinction of…
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Delayed onset adulthood keeps young Brits away from ballot box
The poor voter turnout of young Brits can be explained by the delayed transition to…
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Assessment of total choline intakes in the United States
Choline is an essential nutrient and plays a critical role in brain development, cell signaling,…
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Transplanted nerve cells survive a quarter of a century in a Parkinson’s disease patient
In the late 1980s and over the 1990s, researchers pioneered the transplantation of new nerve…
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Experimental Alzheimer’s drug reverses genetic changes thought to spur the disease
When given to old rats, the drug, which is known to affect signaling by the…
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Planet Nine: A world that shouldn’t exist
Earlier this year scientists presented evidence for Planet Nine, a Neptune-mass planet in an elliptical…
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No evidence of an association between silent brain infarcts and having migraine with aura
A large cross-sectional study focused on women with migraines with aura and compared their brain…
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Ebola vaccine: Promising phase I trials
The clinical phase I trial of a potential vaccine against the dreaded Ebola virus has…
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Scientists reveal how cell corrects errors made in gene transcription
The dynamics of the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) backtracking process is poorly understood. Scientists…
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Giving patients a tool to search for health care prices did not result in lower spending
Offering a price transparency website and app to employees at two large companies was not…