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When French writer Marcel Proust famously recalled his childhood from the taste of a Madeline cookie, his stomach may have done some of the work.

The first known randomized trial of an alcohol-reduction intervention in a humanitarian setting found a significant, sustained effect in lowering alcohol use.

A type of brain activity linked to arousal and attention can track mind wandering. But research is conflicting on whether this activity promotes or hinders mind wandering.

As cigarette smoking reaches historic lows in the U.S., new research from MUSC Hollings Cancer Center suggests a fundamental shift in tobacco use is driving that trend.

University of California, Davis Professor of Neurology Sarah Tomaszewski Farias has been awarded a $3.3 million five-year grant from The National Institute on Aging to study if cultural differences affect how people perceive cognitive changes as they age.

Childhood obesity affects one in five children in the U.S., yet most families have limited access to specialized weight-management programs for children.

Prenatal alcohol exposure-a contributor to adverse pregnancy outcomes and the leading preventable cause of neurodevelopmental disability worldwide-has increased in the United States over the past decade.

Microglia are the most common immune cells in the brain, where they defend against intruders and engulf damaged neurons.

The ability to perform everyday activities free of debilitating symptoms profoundly affects quality of life as we age.

When you pick up a gallon of milk at the store, the nutrients it contains may depend on both what's on the label and the time of year.

Human color vision depends on three types of cone cells in the retina. Although all three contain the same light-absorbing molecule, 11-cis-retinal, differences in the surrounding protein determine sensitivity to red, green, or blue light.

Widely used Alzheimer’s biomarker P-tau 217 reliably detects the disease only at the clinical stage. The protein misfolding of amyloid beta indicates an increased risk years earlier.

Carterra®, a leading provider of high-throughput surface plasmon resonance (HT-SPR) platforms for antibody and small molecule discovery, today highlighted new research from Leerink Partners identifying Carterra as a key enabling technology in the fast-growing market for AI-driven biologics drug discovery.

Habit formation describes the repeated performance of a behavior until it becomes routine: in other words, the shift from deliberate to automatic decision-making.

A nationwide genomic epidemiology study involving a researcher from Kingston University has revealed that sexually transmitted Shigella sonnei is spreading faster, over greater geographic distances and with higher transmission intensity than non-sexually transmitted strains in England.

Many young adults may be entering adulthood without the practical skills needed to manage their own healthcare, suggests a new national poll.

Burnout is pushing emergency physicians to leave the specialty, or to reduce clinical hours, adding to the body of research pointing to a crisis in health care in Canada, according to a new study published in CMAJ.

Months to several years before amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) symptoms arise, levels of certain blood proteins may dramatically shift.

A scoping review on online oral health misinformation reveals gaps in evidence and highlights the impact of misleading content on patient behavior in dentistry.

Novogene Europe, a multiomics research services partner, today announced that it has expanded its single-cell RNA sequencing capability at its Cambridge Omics Centre.