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Researchers have identified a brain protein whose absence leads to memory loss and Alzheimer’s-like damage in mice. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that findings from a new study funded b ...

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A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions ...

UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and mimic ...

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UW researchers found potential new treatments for a rare pediatric brain cancer each year that has a median survival time of ...