Dreaming: The more difficult the day, the more fear and anxiety appear in dreams

The most unexpected finding was that daytime coping strategies did not “cancel out” the effect of stress on sleep...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Recognized a Sequence of Discoveries

The development of optogenetics was an important milestone in brain research...

CanRes: The rate at which mutations accumulate in cells may determine cancer risk

On average, cancer cells contained more than four times as many mutations as healthy cells...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded for Optogenetics

The medicine and physiology prize marks the beginning of “Nobel Week.”․․

PNAS: The right hemisphere of the brain ages faster than the left

The model detected a consistently higher local “brain age” in the right hemisphere compared with the left...

NYP: US surgeons amputated a healthy leg of a woman with cancer

The hospital said an internal investigation found that the incident could have been prevented and that standard operating-room safety procedures had not been followed...

In the US, colorectal cancer in children and adolescents is increasingly diagnosed at advanced stages, researchers say

Nearly 37% of patients subsequently experienced a recurrence, while 45.2% had died from colorectal cancer by the end of the study period...

AJRCCM: Household exposure to vaping may increase the risk of asthma exacerbations in children

In 5% of cases, both tobacco products and e-cigarettes were used in the home; in 9%, only conventional cigarettes were used; and in another 3%, only e-cigarettes were used...

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Chronic stress may have a stronger impact on women’s brains as they age

At the same time, one factor was associated with more favorable cognitive trajectories regardless of group: people who reported stronger social support experienced less decline in attention...

Current Developments in Nutrition: People with cardiovascular disease eat whole fruits less often