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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Many degenerative diseases are at least partially caused by mitochondrial dysfunction in cells. Researchers have created a method in which ...

For decades, neuroscientists focused almost exclusively on only half of the cells in the brain. Neurons were the main players, they thought, and everything else was made up of uninteresting support ...

Maryland is grappling with a $1.4 billion budget deficit, and state auditors have uncovered an additional financial challenge.A year-end report from Maryland's Baltimore man who escaped police custody ...

New York’s school cell phone ban earned top marks in a new state survey of school principals. Roughly 83% of schools reported “more positive classroom environments” and “better student engagement” ...

Neurons often get all the credit for running the brain, but the work done by Ben Barres at Stanford University proved that glial cells are far more crucial to brain functioning than we had previously ...

One National Guard member died and another was recovering after the attack near the White House on the eve of Thanksgiving. The suspect is a 29-year-old Afghan man. By Francesca Regalado Jin Yu Young ...