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Massachusetts General Hospital scientists have, for the first time, shown that oxygen restriction increases lifespan in a mouse model of aging. The research is published in PLOS Biology.

Researchers have led a clinical trial on a new treatment which can help people stop needing to use opioid painkillers to manage chronic pain.

This machine-learning method could assist with robotic scene understanding, image editing, or online recommendation systems.

Rare diseases are often caused by defects in genetic material. If children inherit only a defective gene from one parent, they often are asymptomatic “carriers” – or at least that was the previous assumption.

Inflammatory fatty liver disease and the resulting liver cancer are driven by autoaggressive T cells. Scientists now show what is behind this destructive behavior.

Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person’s visual perspective is a complex skill that emerges around the age of two. A new study suggests that this ability first arose in dinosaurs, at least 60 million years before it appeared in mammals.

Ants’ brains are amazingly sophisticated organs that enable them to coordinate complex behaviour patterns such as the organisation of colonies. Now, researchers have developed a method that allows them to study ants’ brain chemistry and gain insights into the insects’ neurobiological processes.

According to research, an autism screening tool used widely in the US is effective but has limitations.

A new study shows that craniospinal radiation reduces metastatic disease in this deadly pediatric cancer.

A new study has identified the bee’s knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest.