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A new treatment for age-related macular degeneration – which causes blindness – could be delivered via eyedrops instead of via injection.

Novel brain biometrics that detect the lasting effects of a concussion could help inform whether an athlete is ready to return to play following a head injury.

Researchers have shown for the first time that electrical signals in the hippocampus differ immediately before recollection of true and false memories.

More than 80% of the people who were eligible to receive a COVID-19 booster last fall did not. New research is identifying the reasons why.

People frequently exposed to racial or ethnic discrimination may be more susceptible to obesity and related health risks in part because of a stress response that changes biological processes and how we process food cues.

When two, three or four apples are placed in front of us, we are able to recognize the number of apples very quickly. However, we need significantly more time if there are five or more apples and we often also guess the wrong number.

A chloroplast enzyme safeguards plants against pathological protein aggregation that causes Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers may have found a way to “copy” the mechanism for application in human cells.

A study of brain tissue from living adults provides a rare look into the earliest stages of the neurodegenerative disease and highlights cell types involved in plaque production.

A new study has provided the first clear picture of where language processes are located in the brain. The findings may be useful in clinical trials involving language recovery after brain injury.

A new study has exposed how the tumor microenvironment of brain cancers alters the biology of immune cells to promote malignant growth.