In her latest column, Gretchen Reynolds writes about a large new study of more than 83,000 adults that found that standing ...

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A team of Tel Aviv University researchers claims to have made progress in the path to treating Parkinson’s disease. The team found that a variant of a protein, caused by a genetic mutation, enhances ...

Joanne Chory, a Salk Institute biologist widely admired by climate scientists for her efforts to get plants to absorb greater ...

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Researchers are using functionalized nanodiamonds to precisely monitor neuronal activity at the cellular level, enhancing ...

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A multitude of genes have been linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease. Specifically how those genes might influence the progression of neurodegeneration remains something of a black box ...

Forty years after officials identified massive groundwater pollution in Phoenix, the EPA has a plan to clean some of it up.

There has been a lot of excitement since the launch. Not only is the drug extremely effective (people lose about 15 percent ...