Medicine News Stories

Balls of brain tissue grown using stem cells from patients with autism are helping to shed light on the cause of the...

Mexican cave fish adapted to cycles of starvation and binge- eating have gene changes identical to some obese humans.

What makes brains age, and a way to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, has been uncovered by US...

A genetic tendency to overactivity in certain brain regions has been shown to cause anxiety and depression in up to...

A new method for measuring biological age - the decline in organ function - has been used for the first time in young...

Achieving pain-killing benefits from medical marijuana use without negative mood- and memory-altering side effects may...

The biological pathway that determines how mice feel pain is completely different in males and females, and could...

Women change colour across the month and become subtly redder when they are at their most fertile, a new study has...

Doses of antibiotics administered in babyhood trigger lifelong metabolic effects, including heightened risk of obesity...

The way by which we form new memories of real-life events has been uncovered for the first time...

The missing link in the pathway that endows poppies with the ability to make morphine has been found by scientists in...

The cause of tinnitus - the distracting whoosing and grinding sounds experienced by up to 1 in 4 people - has been...

Some Australian marsupials, including kangaroos and wallabies, show signs of left handedness, a new study has shown...

Replaying positive emotional memories in the minds of mice reverses depression symptoms, scientists have discovered...

Scientists in the US have developed a new brain implant that can be used to record information from nerve cells.

Commonly-used stomach ulcer drugs could increase your heart attack risk by up to 25%, a new study has shown.

Creating a virtual reality in which stroke patients have full use of their limbs has been shown to greatly improve...

We’ve infiltrated the ranks of our immune system’s intelligence army to control how we fight disease…

Ladybird colour reveals to predators how toxic they are…

Chimpanzees possess all of the required cognitive abilities for cooking, announces a new study from Harvard University.

A sequencing machine installed in a Sierra Leone tent is distributing virus data freely to the world and revealing how...

How the unfertilised egg wipes the DNA slate clean and reboots the genome to kick-start cell division following...

Every virus infection you have ever contracted can now be detected by a new test developed by US scientists.

Cats are actually picky about bitter, not sour, tastes