March 24, 2026 Edition

A personalized, adaptive system significantly reduced Parkinson's symptoms and improved quality of life compared with standard deep brain stimulation.

Researchers developed a highly accurate brain-computer interface that allowed a man whose ability to speak was impaired by ALS to communicate.

Researchers found that proteins involved in Alzheimer's disease inhibit glucose metabolism in the brain, suggesting a novel potential approach for treatment.

Researchers found one way that SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to a severe complication in children called MIS-C.

Researchers identified a brain circuit in mice that plays a previously unknown role in providing pain relief. This newly recognized pathway may point to novel approaches for treating pain.

Scientists showed how a ketogenic diet can enhance the effects of an experimental anti-cancer drug and starve pancreatic tumors in mice.

A blood test identified Alzheimer's disease correctly in older adults with about 90% accuracy.

Researchers found that women with certain types of severe endometriosis are at significantly increased risk of ovarian cancer.

Researchers found that psilocybin temporarily disrupts a brain network involved in creating a person’s sense of self.

Researchers found that aura altered brain fluid in mice, which flowed directly into part of the peripheral nervous system that detects migraine pain.

A genome editing method restored hearing in adult mice with a rare type of genetic hearing loss and might one day help to reverse some types of hearing loss in people.

Neurons in an area deep in the primate brain rapidly distinguished faces from other objects, even in peripheral vision.

In a family with an inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease, those who carried a gene variant called APOE3Ch had a delay in cognitive impairment and dementia. More research is needed to see whether APOE3Ch has a protective effect in people beyond this ...

Researchers developed a novel method to turn off prion protein production in mice. The technique could lead to treatments for prion diseases such as mad cow disease.

Researchers found that an H5N1 flu virus from cows could infect mice and ferrets, but airborne transmission wasn’t very efficient.

This feature explores experimental approaches to allow people living with paralysis to become more independent and improve quality of life.

A five-minute, culturally neutral test for cognitive problems improved dementia detection and management in older adults.

Scientists developed an AI tool that uses routine clinical data to identify cancer patients most likely to respond to immunotherapy drugs called checkpoint inhibitors.

Higher blood levels of the artificial sweetener xylitol were associated with increased risk of heart attack and stroke in people.

Children who regularly ate peanut-containing foods early in life had a greatly reduced risk of developing peanut allergy into adolescence.

Researchers created massive, advanced maps of the complex networks that regulate gene function in the brains of people with and without mental disorders.

Scientists created a compound that causes reversible contraception in male mice.

H5N1 avian flu virus survived in raw dairy milk kept under refrigerated conditions for at least five weeks.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers identified genetic variants that appear to boost breast cancer risk among females of African ancestry.

Researchers traced differences in parental care between two mouse species to a new cell type in the adrenal glands.