"Since I was a kid, I would sleep-walk, drink, and eat. The sleep-drinking was the most problematic, because I've woken up ...

The great unknown, the final frontier – death. It’s a topic shrouded in both fear and morbid curiosity, a universal ...

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From idea, to lab, to clinic, to approval—it's a long and expensive process to bring a drug to market. It also rarely ...

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The Brown University cognitive neuroscientist studies how the brain and body interact, with the goal of translating insights ...

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The discovery that fat is a communicative organ with a role in everything from bone health to mood is forcing a rethink of ...

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