West Virginia University neuroscientists have discovered a way to control how much zinc is released to specific locations in ...

Many of us have a brain that is older than our years. But there are plenty of things you can do to counteract this, says ...

Published online March 19 in the journal Nature, the study mapped the activity of a group of nerve cells in the bird's brain called the central nucleus of the anterior arcopallium (AAC), which is ...

The brain is an amazing organ with growth and reparative capacity. It controls our cognitive, motor, sensory, emotional, and ...

Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy and a condition that severely affects multiple organs including skeletal muscle, heart, brain and the ...

A St. Paul boy will not survive after he sustained a gunshot wound to the head over the weekend. A GoFundMe has been launched ...

“Our skin, by far, is exposed to the most amount of oxidative stress,” he added. That can lead to a host of issues, from skin aging and sleep problems to heart disease, kidney disease and cancer. It ...

Recent findings suggest that memories are stored in the body, not just the brain. Does that mean our "self" is too?

Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...

A new analysis finds that an organ’s biological age might predict a person’s risk of diseases such as cancer, dementia and ...