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Understanding why we always have room for dessert could lead to new treatments for obesity, researchers have revealed.

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Vital opens on Saturday at the Franklin Institute, and features real human specimens preserved to showcase the inner workings ...

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Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Claudia Victoria Poblete Hlaczik found through a court-ordered DNA test that her parents were not related to her. She now ...

Researchers are using 3D printed lung tissue to study the impact of toxic fumes from substances like chlorine and ammonia on ...

The sudden policy change is that the NIH is to cap indirect cost recovery at 15 percent of the direct costs of a grant, ...