Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

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The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

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The protein is linked to a type of muscular dystrophy Jennifer Jahncke, Ph.D. (left), a postdoctoral scholar working in the ...

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The study showed that vegan children's health differed in several ways from omnivorous kids who ate meat and dairy. The good ...

Nearly two million people worldwide have lost the simple ability to feel steady. Now researchers have developed an ...