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While everyone knows that a good night’s sleep restores a person’s energy, a new study finds it resets another vital function: memory. At certain times during deep sleep, certain parts of the hippocampus go silent, allowing those neurons to reset.

How the brain could regulate a memory’s dynamics was a mystery – until multiple memory copies were discovered.

Scientists have unveiled critical insights into the influence of high-proportion spliced-in titin truncating variants, or hiPSI TTNtv, on cardiovascular disease risk. The study examines how these genetic variants can elevate the risk of heart disease.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis describe the dramatic changes within nerve cells that make regeneration possible. Such findings could inspire the development of new therapies for spinal cord injuries in people.

In what they labeled a “surprising” finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein’s essential role in maintaining the germ’s shape.

An international research team has discovered and described a new type of beige fat cells, which differ from the ones that were already known. The cells consume energy and produce heat through seemingly pointless biochemical reactions.

A WEHI study could help solve a long-standing mystery into why a key immune organ in our bodies shrinks and loses its function as we get older. In a world-first, researchers have uncovered new cells that drive this ageing process in the thymus.

Researchers have successfully used CRISPR-based genome editing to modify the genome of Nile grass rats, a diurnal rodent with similar sleep/wake patterns to humans.

If it’s ever felt like everything in your body is breaking down at once, that might not be your imagination. A new Stanford Medicine study shows that many of our molecules and microorganisms dramatically rise or fall in number during our 40s and 60s.

A new technique developed by McGill researchers for mechanically manipulating stem cells could lead to new stem cell treatments.