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Researchers discover a new circular ribonucleic acid (RNA) that increases tumor activity in soft tissue and connective tissue tumors.

A new study by U of T scientists shows that a female sex hormone plays a key role in promoting brain repair and opens the door to the development of more effective treatments.

In a mouse model of stroke, researchers successfully pioneer a new gene therapy developed to turn glial cells into neurons.

Scientists have uncovered a novel method that could potentially prevent chemotherapy-induced hair loss.

“One of the most concerning aspects of our findings is that we found a significant portion of responders have new onset cognitive impairment when many of them were cognitively normal within just the past few years.”

The research team reports on a series of experiments with rats, finding that acute cerebellar inflammation puts the structure in an "overexcited" state, resulting in the animal developing a temporary decrease in motivation and sociability.

A new study found that adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media are more likely to report high levels of internalizing behaviors compared to adolescents who do not use social media at all.

An evolution revolution has begun after scientists extracted genetic information from a 1.77 million-year-old rhino tooth - the largest genetic data set this old to ever be confidently recorded.

A new way of measuring how relationships in a network change over time can reveal important details about the network, according to researchers. For example, when applied to the world economy, the method detected the greatest amount of network change during 2008-2009, the time of the global financial crisis.

A new study that set out to better understand how and when positive direct reciprocity - paying back a kindness to a specific individual - develops in young children, suggests that for children, retribution comes before gratitude. But that isn't necessarily a bad, thing - at least in evolutionary terms.