
A protein that enables us to detect cold and menthol may also be key to migraine headaches
The laboratory findings point to a target for new treatments that could mean relief for millions suffering from debilitating pain.
The laboratory findings point to a target for new treatments that could mean relief for millions suffering from debilitating pain.
USC researchers find that adults can replenish some of the brain cells they lose by generating new brain cells, and that this process is dramatically altered in patients with long-term epilepsy.
Cyberattacks are increasingly sophisticated as institutions of all kinds turn to biometrics to confirm user identity. USC Information Sciences Institute researchers are on the front lines, developing systems to guard against security breaches and hacking attempts.
The findings could provide potential targets for new Alzheimer’s drugs.
COVID has galvanized the research community, but the public needs guidance that’s clear, compelling and easy to follow. USC Price professors say that experts should hedge more and make their recommendations more conditional.
Tiny organisms that go deep are key to a natural cycle that helps mitigate global warming. A USC-led team of scientists has discovered why and built a computer model that predicts the rate of carbon transfer.
Climate change isn’t an inevitable death sentence, but the latest news often makes people as though it is. A task force led by USC’s Gale Sinatra finds that psychologists can make a big difference.
Black Americans older than 50 completed treatment programs at a much lower rate than whites, research co-authored by USC Price visiting scholar Jevay Grooms found. The same also was largely true for Hispanic Americans.
Lu’s lab publishes paradigm-shifting research about the complex and surprising behavior of individual blood stem cells.
Up to 2% of pregnant women experience nausea and vomiting so severe that it can lead to problems with fetal development. A USC-led study offers insight into the condition and may help in predicting and diagnosing it.
The study suggests that binge eating disorder is wired in the brain from an early age, says lead author Stuart Murray, director of the Eating Disorders Program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
After routine prostate cancer screenings were no longer recommended, the incidence rate of metastatic prostate cancer rose more than 40% in men 45 and older, a Keck Medicine of USC study found.
Research adds to evidence that healthier pre-industrial lifestyles may hold clues to preventing Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
The 6,000-square-foot Sustainable Seaweed Aquaculture Lab will pursue groundbreaking research on regenerative aquaculture.
A study by researchers at USC and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests sensory issues in early infancy may be the first signs of a later autism diagnosis.
By studying the APOE4 gene and its impact on brain inflammation and metabolism of fatty acids, Hussein Yassine discovers potential new ways to prevent cognitive decline.
From the origins of the Big Bang to the composition of dark energy, dark matter and black holes, cosmologists Vera Gluscevic and Elena Pierpaoli are searching for answers.
After watching his twin brother lose a 15-year fight with the memory-robbing illness, Dan Epstein decided to do something about it. The result: an unprecedented research collaboration between USC and UC San Diego.
USC evolutionary biologist David Raichlen talks about working out in a major city, how our brains developed when we began moving long distances, and the “runner’s high.”
USC’s Karen Lincoln is melding her social work expertise with medicine and engineering to address the needs of the underserved Black population, a group with the highest rate of Alzheimer’s and related dementias.
Among older Americans surveyed in the weeks after FDA approval of aducanumab, few could correctly answer true or false questions about the first new Alzheimer’s drug in decades.
The newest design allows patients to put on or remove the boot whenever they wish, gives feedback about their activity level and sends data directly to the care team.
Researchers studying a protein that is strongly linked to the psychiatric disorder are the first to determine its function.
More children are experiencing symptoms lasting from one to several months, a condition sometimes referred to as “long COVID.” What could that mean for health care down the road?