Neurogastronomy, Why Calories Count, The Kitchen as Laboratory, Fear of Food
Neurogastronomy, Why Calories Count, The Kitchen as Laboratory, Fear of Food
Studying the evolution of altruistic behaviors reveals how knee-jerk good intentions can backfire.
Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease are ready for widespread use in clinical trials.
A 6-minute video posted on YouTube documents more than 60 alleged cases of image manipulation from 24 papers by a single researcher.
Whole brain radiation therapy costs mice some of their cognitive abilities, but treatment with low-oxygen air revives their reasoning skills.
Proteins that appear before patients show symptoms of the disease could offer clues to the disease process.
Examples of parasites that manipulate the behavior of their hosts are not hard to come by, but scientists have only recently begun to understand how they induce such dramatic changes.
The body’s own mechanism for dispersing the inflammatory reaction might lead to new treatments for chronic pain.
Not all inflammation leads to pain. Despite widespread infection followed by fever, colds rarely cause pain. But when some cytokines and certain immune cells are active near pain-sensing nerves, they trigger receptors that convey pain sensations to t