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Men are not better than women at spatial cognition - such as map reading - is the principal finding from ground-breaking work by researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, hosted at University of Limerick (UL), Ireland.

A team of undergraduates and high school students has published an encyclopedia of more than 1,000 fruit fly genes which could be associated with the development of several organs.

People who develop Parkinson's disease before age 50 may have been born with disordered brain cells that went undetected for decades, according to new Cedars-Sinai research. The research points to a drug that potentially might help correct these disease processes.

The same three proteins that bring together neighboring neurons are also responsible for the repulsion of migrating nerve cells in early brain development, according to a new study.

Researchers have discovered a small molecule, known as Synucleozid, that could slow or halt the progression of Parkinson’s disease.

An interdisciplinary Munich research team led by scientists from TUM has for the first time succeeded in correcting the mutated dystrophin gene in living pigs. In order to cut the defective gene sequence from the DNA of the animals' muscle and heart cells, the researchers modified the Crispr-Cas9 gene scissors.

A new study shows how electrical impulses are traveling with high speed in the brain, the results from which could provide better insight into demyelinating diseases.

Researchers have found that food, sex and money implicate similar brain regions, whereas different types of reward favor the left and right hemispheres differently.

Researchers have identified a new vulnerability in pancreatic cancer, which may provide a potential strategy for combating one of the most treatment-resistant malignancies.

A low-cost test has been shown to accurately identify patients at higher risk for progressive kidney disease after being hospitalized for acute kidney injury.