A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...

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Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...

Our lives revolve around patterns. From the time we wake up to the moment we stop at a red light to when we sit down for dinner, the cadence of our day-to-day actions guides how we interact with the ...

However, details of the intervening steps, as researchers have learned in the past 65 years, are quite complex — certain cells carry the flu antigen to the immune system, specific immune cells respond ...

In a wholly new approach to cancer treatment, Northwestern University biomedical engineers have doubled the effectiveness of chemotherapy in animal experiments. Instead of attacking cancer directly, ...