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A new drug developed at Lancaster University in the UK that may help to prevent the early stages of Alzheimer's disease is to enter clinical trials.

The company will be presenting a comprehensive and innovative 'World of Temperature' to its guests at the ACHEMA exhibition in Frankfurt.

Genzyme has agreed to use Ablynx's therapeutic proteins to carry out in vitro and in vivo research on multiple sclerosis models, then develop therapies against the disease.

Duke and MIT scientists have discovered an area of the brain that is sensitive to the timing of speech, a crucial element of spoken language.

Bacteria and the blood-brain barrier; the male bias of autism; blood stress markers; and more.

If you have a map, you can know where you are without knowing which way you are facing. If you have a compass, you can know which way you're facing without knowing where you are. Animals from ants to mice to humans use both kinds of information to reorient themselves in familiar places, but how they determine this information from environmental cues is not well understood.

A research team based at the University of Eastern Finland and the Turku Centre for Biotechnology have found new ways to block a pathway that may be responsible for several brain disorders, which could open the door to developing better treatments.

Researchers have found that an antiviral compound may protect the brain from invading pathogens.

A fruit fly starts buzzing around food at a picnic, so you wave your hand over the insect and shoo it away. But when the insect flees the scene, is it doing so because it is actually afraid? Using fruit flies to study the basic components of emotion, a new California Institute of Technology (Caltech) study reports that a fly's response to a shadowy overhead stimulus might be analogous to a negative emotional state such as fear—a finding that could one day help us understand the neural circuitry involved in human emotion.

Psychologists from Bradford and Giessen comment on the confusion over the colour of the social media sensation #TheDress.