For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Picture a mammal that can deliberately shut down most of its brain functions for most of the year, then wake up in the spring ...

Alzheimer's disease has long been thought to be irreversible, but new research using a mouse model offers hope.

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a unique resource in the form of the Center for Biomolecular ...

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system using a clever molecular trick. Researchers found that the cancer-driving ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right side can, after a turn, become a headwind. To stay on course, the fly's ...