Obstetrics & gynaecology

Embryo-analysis technique may boost in vitro fertilization success

(Medical Xpress)—Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have devised a two-part approach to identify developing human embryos most likely to result in successful pregnancies. The technique could transform the ...

Neuroscience

Neuroscientists roll out first comprehensive atlas of brain cells

When you clicked to read this story, a band of cells across the top of your brain sent signals down your spine and out to your hand to tell the muscles in your index finger to press down with just the right amount of pressure ...

Medical research

Anti-amyloid drugs and Alzheimer's disease

An estimated 50 million people around the world have Alzheimer's disease (AD), and perhaps twice that number are unknowingly "incubating" the disease during its long presymptomatic period. The total cost of caring for AD ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Can seven questions determine how wise you are?

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that an abbreviated, seven-item scale can help determine with high validity a person's level of wisdom, a potentially modifiable personality trait ...

Medical research

Mayo Clinic researchers study how body can repair itself

At Mayo Clinic's Center for Regenerative Medicine, physicians and researchers have a dazzling array of tools at their fingertips: transplants, genomics, computerized data analysis and biomedical engineering. But the core ...

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