For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory rather than the cells and circuits that go wrong. Now a new wave of brain ...

By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

Learn about Cleidocranial Dysplasia (CCD), a rare genetic disorder affecting bone and dental development, highlighted by ...

Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia ...

New research indicates that how often people drink may matter as much as how much they drink, with even modest alcohol use ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...

Genetic research is rapidly overturning the idea that each psychiatric diagnosis is a separate island. Large DNA studies now ...

A DNA study of a Bronze Age cave in Calabria sheds light on early populations that lived in southern Italy centuries before Greek settlement.

Obesity is not a single disease. New research shows distinct biological phenotypes that explain why weight gain and treatment ...

A Cambridge study comparing sibling patterns across humans and other mammals reveals we’re far more monogamous than our ...

New genetic research suggests centuries of human persecution may have selected for calmer behavior in Italy's rare Apennine ...