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What makes people more or less mindful from one situation to the next? Researchers have found that mindfulness is not entirely something an individual brings to a situation and rather is partly shaped by the situations they encounter.

After sequencing the Neanderthal genome, scientists discovered all present day non-African individuals carry some Neanderthal ancestry in their DNA. Now, researchers at Princeton University present evidence of Neanderthal ancestry in African populations too, and its origin provides new insights into human history.

The first genetic analysis of schizophrenia in an ancestral African population, the South African Xhosa, has been undertaken, addressing a major gap in our understanding of human genetics.

A minute gene fragment may impact the brain in a way that could explain autism cases that come with cognitive challenges, according to new research.

A new study suggests that the use of scent sticks during the learning period and also during sleep helps to improve learning.

Researchers may have uncovered why neural stem and progenitor cells do not develop into neurons after helping to repair injury in the central nervous system.

A genetic mutation that disrupts how DNA relays messages to the rest of the cell has been linked to numerous blood cancers.

A team has uncovered how a key protein in the "immune escape" process is activated by tumor cells. They now intend to develop a drug that can intervene in this specific activation mechanism.

Scientists have attempted to improve methods for cryopreservation of rat spermatozoa, which usually provides notoriously poor results.

Recently, a group of bioengineers at the University of Pittsburgh discovered a case of goblet cell regeneration that is both easily accessible and happens incredibly fast on cells isolated from early developing frog embryos.