Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba, poses a rare but deadly threat in warm, untreated freshwater during summer.

A five-year-old girl who took a hot spring bath is infected with the so-called 'brain-eating amoeba'. According to Chinese ...

Naegleria fowleri is a free‑living amoeba that thrives in ponds, lakes, slow‑moving rivers, poorly chlorinated swimming pools ...

In mammals, olfactory behaviors such as determination of food palatability and searching require accurate assessment and discrimination of different odor types, concentrations, and exposure duration ...

No more hunger after cooking? A newly identified network of nerve cells is responsible, a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has discovered in mice. They discovered a ...

Learn how an oily substance found in earwax has become a critical resource to detect Parkinson's disease.

Discover how specific plant scents can lure lady beetles, nature's pest controllers! New research pinpoints odors that ...

Scientists have discovered that earwax may hold clues to early Parkinson's detection. Analyzing volatile organic compounds ...

Chronic sinusitis is often a benign condition, but it should not be taken lightly when it becomes persistent or atypical ...

A staging scheme based on ophthalmoscopic signs of disturbed axoplasmic transport is described. A study employing fundus photographs showed good reproducibility among different observers. Specificity ...