Arthritis & Rheumatism

Scientists home in on cause of osteoarthritis pain

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center, in collaboration with researchers at Northwestern University, have identified a molecular mechanism central to the development of osteoarthritis (OA) pain, a finding that could ...

Medical research

How the brain gathers threat cues and turns them into fear

Salk scientists have uncovered a molecular pathway that distills threatening sights, sounds and smells into a single message: Be afraid. A molecule called CGRP enables neurons in two separate areas of the brain to bundle ...

Medical research

Exploring how the brain senses infection

A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School illuminates how the brain becomes aware that there is an infection in the body.

Neuroscience

Why rats prefer company of the young and stressed

Researchers have identified a neural pathway implicated in social interaction between adult and juvenile animals, according to new research in rats published in JNeurosci.

Medical research

Can we extend healthspan by altering the perception of food?

Researchers at the Buck Institute have shown a new effect on aging via a small drug-like molecule that alters the perception of food in the nematode C. elegans. Publishing in Aging Cell, researchers "tricked" the worm's metabolism ...

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