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A study claimed that people who eat high-fat, low-carb diets weren’t seeing their arteries fill up with plaque, despite having high levels of blood cholesterol. Critics disagreed—and all hell broke ...

The U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime staffers fear. At the National Institutes of Health, six directors ...

About 5,000 to 10,000 people in the U.S. live with acquired hypothalamic obesity, or obesity that stems from damage to the part of the brain that controls hunger and weight regulation.

Gavin Nielsen was 2 years old when he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive brain cancer. The smiley toddler had diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, a cancer that occurs in the part of ...

Because brain tumors can affect areas of the brain that control your motor skills, speech, hearing, balance, or memory, after treatment you might need rehabilitation as part of your recovery process.

In adults, the diencephalon is centrally located within the brain sitting at the top of the brain stem above the midbrain and under the cerebrum. It is part of the third ventricle of the brain. Along ...

Figure 1. Hundreds of thousands of Myo10 monomer molecules found in Myo10-transfected U2OS cells. (A) Epifluorescence image of exogenously expressed HaloTag-Myo10 in U2OS cells. Actin is labeled with ...