People can be easily tricked into believing an artificial finger is their own, shows a study published today in The Journal of Physiology. The results reveal that the brain does not require multiple signals to build a picture ...
Sep 22, 2013
Eating low-calorie sweetened products—especially when hungry or exhausted—may lead to a higher likelihood of seeking high calorie alternatives later, due to a newly discovered signal in the brain, suggests new research ...
Sep 22, 2013
A drug formerly used to treat the skin disorder psoriasis has shown encouraging results in a phase 2 trial to assess its effectiveness in treating type 1 diabetes, according to new research published in The Lancet Diabetes ...
Sep 22, 2013
Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine after using the 2009 pandemic as a natural experiment to study why some people seem to resist severe illness.
Sep 22, 2013
A team of researchers affiliated with Ludwig Cancer Research and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report in the current issue of Nature Methods a dramatically improved technique for analyzing the genes expressed within ...
Sep 22, 2013
