The movement involved in swinging a tennis racket is one of the most complex in biomechanics. A standard overhead serve has eight different stages and engages 15 muscles at different rates, each ...

Scientists don't fully understand what causes Alzheimer's disease, but they have a primary suspect. Certain forms of a protein called amyloid beta that accumulate in the brains of patients with the ...

New research has uncovered how cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in the brain play an important role in driving the spread of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumour in children. Published ...

Jennifer Munson, a cancer researcher at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has been awarded two new National Institutes of Health grants to advance greater understanding and ...

When coordinating fluid movements, the right cerebellar and left cerebral hemispheres work together to coordinate motor skills on the right side of the body and vice versa. The criss-cross functional ...

Warm water pelagic snails don’t get much attention, but they certainly should. The snails move between ocean surface waters at night where they feed to their daytime sleeping quarters several hundred ...