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A Parkinson’s treatment designed to smooth out the disease’s most disruptive motor fluctuations is now drawing attention to a different ...

A new approach to building faster, more compact optical sensors could help push silicon photonics beyond the limits of conventional ...

Rare childhood central nervous system tumours have exposed one of the most stubborn weaknesses in modern oncology: science can move ...

Parkinson’s disease has long been described as a disorder of dopamine-producing neurons, but a new comparative study suggests that its ...

A smartwatch may be doing far more than counting steps. It may be quietly recording a shifting portrait of how ...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is often reduced to a story about distractibility and excess energy. In reality, the condition can ...

A metabolic by-product best known for its role in cellular energy production may be helping obesity turn osteoarthritis into a ...

Cytokines are among the immune system’s most powerful molecular messengers. These small proteins coordinate inflammation, guide the development of immune ...

A new study in npj Viruses is examining how orthoflaviviruses manipulate one of the most dynamic systems inside infected cells: ...