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Quadriceps tendon autograft has emerged as an excellent option for ACL reconstruction, particularly for active patients seeking to return to high-demand sports.This article describes a minimally ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

You know that feeling when you try to do a good thing and then accidentally scorch the entire planet? Yeah, the future can be ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

Durotomy is a common neurosurgical complication involving a tear in the dura mater, the protective membrane surrounding the ...

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry ...

Huntington's disease (HD) has long been impossible to cure, but new research is finally giving fresh hope. HD is a ...

Recent research published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology found that when 5-year-old prereaders practiced writing by hand, they significantly outperformed children who typed the same ...

The glial-specific role of betaPix during cerebral blood vessel development has been revealed by establishing a new betaPix conditional trap allele in zebrafish.