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UC Riverside study may lead to new treatments for multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects an estimated 2.3 ...

Researchers at Michigan State University studied how insects can help humans detect lung cancer weeks earlier than scans currently used.

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How do animals bounce back from sleep deprivation? Scientists found a subset of neurons in the mouse thalamus that repay this ...

Researchers have discovered that apical and basal dendrites of the same neuron use different strategies to learn, suggesting ...

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