Scientists found that childhood trauma can change DNA and brain development, leaving long-term biological marks.

The rate of smoking cigarettes has steadily declined since the 1960s – when Congress required warnings on cigarette boxes.

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Researchers led by a team from the University of Bath in the UK have achieved just that in a basic worm model of Parkinson's.

When biomedical researchers need to test their latest ideas, they often turn to engineered human tissue that mimics the responses in our own bodies. It's become an important intermediary step before ...

A new MRI measure maps beat-to-beat brain-vessel pulses, revealing why some 60-year-old brains look “younger.” ...

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you ...

New research reveals that child maltreatment leaves measurable biological “scars” on DNA, altering brain structure and function.

Researchers in Göttingen, Germany, have elucidated the structure and function of otoferlin, a protein that plays a crucial ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.