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The use of minute doses of magic mushrooms and truffles containing psychedelic substances could induce a state of unconstrained thought that may produce more new, creative ideas, say study.

A ‘brain training’ app developed at the University of Cambridge could help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) manage their symptoms, which may typically include excessive handwashing and contamination fears.

Deep learning techniques have helped researchers at Tel Aviv University streamline the process of designing and characterizing basic nanophotonic, metamaterial elements, which could help these materials realize their potential in application from remote nanoscale sensing to energy harvesting and medical diagnostics.

These devices should help us better understand the triggers of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of adult blindness in developed countries.

Cap-Score tests are available to patients and physicians at about a dozen fertility clinics across the US.

COMPASS Pathways, a life sciences company, has received Breakthrough Therapy designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its psilocybin therapy for treatment-resistant depression. The FDA designates a drug as a Breakthrough Therapy if preliminary clinical evidence shows that it may demonstrate substantial improvement over available therapy.

A series of experiments have been designed to develop new medications that could potentially fight off the resistant and sensitive types of influenza A.

Lights out, doors open, online orders out: in a networked home, everything is controlled by voice or by pressing a smartphone button. But so far little thought has been given to who should be able to press which buttons.

New details revealed of how a naturally occurring hormone can boost memory in aging mice, laying the groundwork for staving off this form of memory loss in people.

A new type of molecule blocks the action of genes that drive the growth of therapy-resistant prostate cancer, a new study finds.