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Scientists shed new light on the transitions between a wakeful, active state and the stillness of sleep

Findings could help to target public health messaging, for example to encourage handwashing with soap or to counter the stigma associated with sickness

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have visualised for the first time how the protein SOCS1 'switches off' cell signalling to dampen immune responses and block cancer growth.

New research suggests that 1 in 5 deaths among young adults in the United States is opioid-related. The study was led by researchers at the St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, ON, results were published in JAMA Network Open today.

Researchers have published a research study in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters that identifies a small molecule SERCA activator that may improve memory and cognition. The molecule corrects cells' calcium ion balance and represents a new therapeutic strategy for neurodegeneration drug development.

Millions of years of evolutionary fine-tuning have made dolphins phenomenally good at using echolocation to orient themselves, find food and communicate with one another. But how do they actually do it? New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that they emit two intertwined ultrasound beam components at different frequencies – and with slightly different timing.

An antifungal medication, commonly prescribed for toenail infections, could help eliminate dormant cells within bowel tumours, according to new research funded by Cancer Research UK.

Green tea could hold the key to preventing deaths from heart attacks and strokes caused by atherosclerosis.

BellBrook Labs has been awarded a $1 million phase II SBIR grant by the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences to develop assays to detect cGAMP in biological samples.

Researchers from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) highlights a diversity of approaches that their automated high-throughput flow cytometry has enabled for phenotypic drug discovery.