Brain abnormalities may be a nonspecific antecedent for sexual homicide offending. Studies suggest elevated prevalence of ...

Immune therapy has transformed how cancer is treated, but many tumors continue to evade these treatments, thanks to their ...

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

This is an important and solid study that examines the role of TFAM, a protein that helps maintain mtDNA, in mtDNA mutator mice. The authors have demonstrated that TFAM's counteractive role in mtDNA ...

Study in a Sentence: In a human cell-based brain model, repetitive physical injuries reactivate the common virus, Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1), triggering an Alzheimer’s-like response. Healthy for ...

The study found that concentrations of microplastics in brain samples were up to 30 times higher than those in liver or ...

"I have yet to encounter a single human being who says, 'There's a bunch of plastic in my brain and I'm totally cool with that'," said one researcher.

The average amount, 4,800 micrograms per gram of microplastics in brain tissue, was found to be equivalent to the amount found in a standard plastic spoon, according to the study. Dr. Stephanie ...