Retired Soccer Player Brandi Chastain Plans to Donate Her Brain to Science
Chastain hopes her brain can provide researchers with important information on a common form of soccer-related brain damage.
Chastain hopes her brain can provide researchers with important information on a common form of soccer-related brain damage.
It didn't prevent the disease, but it did delay parasitemia and produced a "robust immune response.”
It appears that the risk of dementia is actually decreasing in the U.S.—and one of the biggest contributing factors may be an increasingly educated population.
A brief zap to the brain may make cancer drugs more effective.
Sneezing produces a “turbulence cloud" of snot.
A protein engineered to fit onto nanoparticles successfully kills tumor cells in the bloodstreams of mice with prostate cancer.
Up to 25 percent of white-tailed deer living in Virginia and West Virginia sites were infected.
What is it, and why has it exploded now?
Scientists at Harvard Medical School have uncovered important clues about a potential cause of schizophrenia.
The transgenic primates have a human gene associated with autism spectrum disorders.
The technology behind it was inspired by a children's toy.
It's been nearly 20 years since the last study on the distribution of disease-carrying ticks.
“This study will lead to a revolution in neuroscience," Wallace says. "Whether the neuroscientists will accept it is another question."
That depends who you ask, and how you define “gross.”
In this episode of 'Big Questions,' Craig answers a pressing question about germs from one of our YouTube viewers.
Lewy Body Dementia affects an estimated 1.4 million people in the U.S.
Researchers at MIT are gathering city data from an unusual source.
Why did the chicken cross the pen? No, seriously. That’s a legitimate scientific question.
Alexandra Allen was 12 when she first had an allergic reaction to water.
Israeli scientists have developed sophisticated sensors that can “sniff” out ovarian cancer in a patient's breath.
The disease has been around twice as long as we previously thought.
A growing body of research suggests dancing can alleviate some of the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
ViroCap can also detect “novel” viruses not yet identified, as long as they share a few genetic characteristics with known viruses.