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Researchers have used an approach involving fMRI to scan the brains of awake babies and found that when focusing their attention infants under a year of age recruit areas of their frontal cortex, a section of the brain involved in more advanced functions that was previously thought to be immature in babies.

UT Southwestern researchers have identified the structure of a key member of a family of proteins called nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in three different shapes.

New research finds that feeling psychologically powerful makes leaders feel that their job is more demanding. This feeling can both benefit and harm powerful leaders.

Researchers have developed a diagnostic test that can identify virulent forms of the swine bacterial pathogen Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus which can cause severe illness and death in pigs, other animals and rarely people.

As one of the founding members of the International Rye Genome Sequencing Group (IRGSG), the University of Maryland (UMD) co-published the first full reference genome sequence for rye in Nature Genetics.

A big question for researchers is where does benign forgetfulness end and true disease begin? Researchers review 150 articles to determine what happens as the blood-brain barrier ages.

In a study investigating the mechanism that exacerbates rheumatoid arthritis in smokers, researchers have discovered a novel path in the inflammatory process associated with the bone damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis. The discovery opens up opportunities for new therapeutic interventions for the disease.

A study recently published in the Science journal has found a solution to applying CAR T cell therapy to solid tumours: programming CAR T cells so that they only kill cancer cells, leaving alone healthy cells that have the same marker protein as cancer cells.

An anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug candidate enters its Phase I clinical trial in the United States on March 15.

Researchers have described how pancreatic cancer cells use an alternative method to find necessary nutrients, defying current therapies, to help them grow and spread.