In a study published in Nature Communications biophysicists unravel the mystery of how muscles form at the molecular level and maintain their function. The findings may help design treatments for ...

Our population is aging. The United Nations reports that by 2050, the number of people age 85 and older on our planet is set ...

For decades, scientists believed that photoreceptors in the retina relied primarily on neighboring support cells, known as ...

Researchers have developed a new cell-based approach to produce several sugars naturally found in human breast milk. Human ...

“Our study provides a new strategy for engineering biomimetic nanoreactors that increasingly replicate the sophisticated ...

Studies of visual perception indicate that aged humans show decreased visual acuity, binocular summation, contrast sensitivity, motion sensitivity and wavelength sensitivity 1,2,3,4. Senescent humans ...

Keith Schneider, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware, and the director of the cognitive psychology graduate program. He also is ...