It’s set off a lot of research ideas in the Alzheimer’s field as well, up to the point of planning human gene therapy trials and development of potential therapeutic antibody treatments. And such ...

The intense deluges, never before documented, represent the highest number of back-to-back extreme weather events in the past ...

Distinct properties of glutamate-dopamine, nonglutamate-dopamine, and glutamate-only ventral tegmental area neurons Combined, our analyses designated 126 genes as FIRST genes. As anticipated, FIRST ...

A genome-wide map of the genetic network in monocytes that regulates type I interferon induction by the cGAS-STING pathway Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) have roles in motivation ...

A new study in tree shrews now suggests a key to preventing myopia may be the indigo portion of sunlight. Adding this part of the light spectrum to the animals’ environment prevented them from ...

In a major policy shift, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ended a far-reaching ban imposed last year on ...

In 2023, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Kansas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) celebrated the opening of a massive new biodefense lab. The $1.25 billion National Bio and Agro-Defense ...

In the past decade, as opioids claimed nearly half a million lives across the United States, surgeons, dentists, and other ...

Diary entries from the retired NIAID director address presidential relationships, “crazy RFK,” and death threats ...

A pathogenic CDC42 M45L variant strengthens binding to pyrin B30.2, triggering inflammasome activation and autoinflammatory ...

Jomon genomics reveal cold adaptation in Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers of eastern Eurasia The integration of synaptic inputs is a fundamental function of neurons. In the traditional model, ...

In the other, researchers show the chemical makeup of one of the bones suggests they ate lots of meat but little seafood. “They were very tall!” says Ben Marwick, an archaeologist at the University of ...