A series of digital tests carried out via a smartphone app could enhance the detection of disease progression in Huntington's ...

Patients with womb cancer are not being tested for a genetic condition that increases their chance of developing further ...

Cancer cannot be understood as a single, uniform disease. The more we delve into studying each type of tumor, the more we ...

Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion—10% to 20%—of the neurons in the brain's nucleus accumbens, a critical ...

Northwestern University biophysicists have developed a new computational tool for identifying the gene combinations ...

The inaccuracy of race and ethnicity data found in electronic health records (EHRs) can negatively impact patient care as ...

A compound found in the gut may reduce some of the manifestations of Alzheimer's disease, according to a Northwestern ...

Elderly persons who find it difficult to lift an object weighing 5 kilograms run the risk of developing a host of chronic ...

Researchers at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology find that the hippocampus sends signals to the visual cortex to ...

Approximately 10% of the human population is left-handed. Among them, one in five exhibits a peculiar brain phenomenon known ...

A new study from The University of Texas at Arlington details a novel strategy for how the body clears out dead cells during ...

A new genetic study on the causes of chronic kidney disease that combined multiple health measurements has led to a more ...