Musicians and people with early blindness show a similar change in their brain that improves their ability to discriminate between pitches in sound.

In a preliminary study using blood and spinal fluid samples from 200 people, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have evidence that a well-studied blood pressure regulation protein appears to also be a marker for and perhaps play a role in treatment-resistant schizophrenia and other psychoses.

A new antiviral defense system discovered by Columbia scientists offers clues to telomerase’s origins and could inspire new approaches to studying aging and improving cell therapies.

Infants born to mothers who ate a healthy, Mediterranean-style diet during pregnancy were at lower risk for colic and eczema, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. The researchers also found that regularly consuming seafood during pregnancy helped lower an infant’s risk for these conditions.