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Neuroscientists have taken a major step toward answering longstanding questions about how Prozac and similar drugs act in the brain. Their findings could lead to better antidepressants that don't take weeks to kick in.

New insights about gene regulation in liver cells could lead to better treatments for a common tumor type.

By determining the structure of a protein linked to a deadly form of arrhythmia, scientists have gained new insights about the condition.

A new algorithm allows scientists to record the activity of individual neurons within a volume of brain tissue.

Scientists have identified the features that render a potassium channel in the heart vulnerable to interference by a range of drugs.

To learn more about dolphin cognition and communication, researchers have developed an underwater touchscreen using optical technology, the first of its kind.

Researchers have uncovered the neurons that spin a fly’s internal compass when the insect turns—the first such mechanism identified in any animal.

By studying rhesus monkeys, researchers have identified a brain network dedicated to processing social interactions—a discovery that offers tantalizing clues to the origins of our ability to understand what other people are thinking.

With Hatten’s election, the Rockefeller faculty now has 39 members or foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.

Scientists have discovered a common mutation that might explain why some people have trouble going to sleep at night and getting up early. The gene alteration slows the internal biological clock that regulates our sleeping patterns.