Visual feedback is just as important as a sense of body position when it comes to the involuntary reflexes that activate muscle movement, says a new study in the open-access journal eLife. The ...

Fainting, also called syncope, is when a person briefly loses consciousness. A recent study found that syncope events leading to hospitalization can cost healthcare systems up to $2,420 per day and, ...

Inflammation is a local, protective response to microbial invasion or injury. It must be fine-tuned and regulated precisely, because deficiencies or excesses of the inflammatory response cause ...

That fruit fly appearing moments after you poured that first glass of cabernet, has just used a poppy-seed-sized brain to conduct a finely-choreographed search and arrive in time for happy hour. That ...

Newborn infants show strong pain behaviour, but the nature of this pain is poorly understood and has, historically, been undertreated. The study of the development of nociceptive pathways shows that ...

A new study of the impact on marine life of seismic air guns, used in geological surveys of the seafloor, has found that the sensory organs and righting reflexes of rock lobster can be damaged by ...