In her latest column, Gretchen Reynolds writes about a large new study of more than 83,000 adults that found that standing ...

AC Immune (ACIU) stock shot up 20% Thursday after the company reported positive data from a Phase 2 study of its drug ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers claims to have made progress in the path to treating Parkinson’s disease. The team found that a variant of a protein, caused by a genetic mutation, enhances ...

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Researchers are using functionalized nanodiamonds to precisely monitor neuronal activity at the cellular level, enhancing ...

Joanne Chory, a Salk Institute biologist widely admired by climate scientists for her efforts to get plants to absorb greater ...

New research highlights middle age as a pivotal period for brain health, with significant changes in how cells remove damaged mitochondria. Defects in this recycling process have been linked to ...

A multitude of genes have been linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease. Specifically how those genes might influence the progression of neurodegeneration remains something of a black box ...

Some warn that Mike Tyson is at a higher risk of injury - or worse - because his age has affected his ability to react ...

Forty years after officials identified massive groundwater pollution in Phoenix, the EPA has a plan to clean some of it up.

The research group led by Chinese Academician Jiazuan Ni (College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University), ...

AGING MATTERS: Numerous programs planned for seniors this month in Forsyth County ...