For decades, researchers have worked to untangle the biological causes of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. A primary focus has been the accumulation of misfolded proteins that ...

Ahmedabad: The city recently got the national biobank for lysosomal storage disorders at the FRIGE Institute of Human ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton has yielded the oldest known genome of the bacterium behind syphilis, revealing a lineage unlike ...

Ukrainian skeleton sled racing athlete Vladyslav Herskevych drew attention to his sport after being disqualified for wearing a controversial helmet at the Winter Olympics.

It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...

The neuron’s inner scaffold, once viewed as static support, now looks like a gatekeeper. Research findings are available ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

Now, new research by Penn State scientists has revealed this vital process may be governed by a previously unknown molecular ...

Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

Falling ill with leprosy or tuberculosis wasn’t a death sentence for your social status in medieval Denmark, researchers have ...

Brain cells are constantly swallowing material from the fluid that surrounds them - signaling molecules, nutrients, even pieces of their own surfaces - in a process known as endocytosis that is ...