The lab of Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., at The Wistar Institute has discovered a previously unknown mechanism for how aggressive brain cancers reprogram immune system cells from fighting cancer to enabling ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

What if the early childhood social and emotional programming that got downloaded into your brain is not helping you? Are you simply out of luck? The new science of epigenetics paints a radically ...

Experts across many fields recognise that it’s important for our health and happiness to excavate and reshape our subconscious to suit us (Molly Benge) Have you ever given much thought to the ...

The human body is an assemblage of systems that have a surprising degree of autonomy, and are all busy managing various aspects of our mental and physical lives. Nonetheless, they do communicate with ...

A new treatment for tinnitus using vibrations created by synthesised music, improved symptoms in almost all patients during its first trial. The sonic brain reprogramming treatment, based on sound ...

The brains of drug users and alcoholics should be "reprogrammed" to cure them of their addictions, according to leading scientists. This is among the controversial proposals to be put before ministers ...