Think of the human brain during adolescence as a city still under construction. Roads are being paved, bridges are going up, and entire neighborhoods are …

In biology, proteins are the dedicated laborers of the cell, but they do not start ready for work. They begin as long chains that must …

East Tennessee State University has recently secured a transformative five-year federal grant to launch the Summer Undergraduate Addiction Research Training Program in Central Appalachia, a …

For a college freshman, biology often feels like a collection of vocabulary words, but in the laboratory of Dr. Valentin Yakubenko at East Tennessee State …

In the field of neuropharmacology, the search for the next medical breakthrough often feels like a high-stakes gamble. For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has struggled …

For decades, the search for the origins of memory loss has focused almost exclusively on two regions of the brain: the prefrontal cortex and the …

For Dr. Aaron Polichnowski, the journey to the forefront of medical research began not in a laboratory, but on the baseball diamond at East Tennessee …

As the overdose crisis continues to evolve across Appalachia, researchers at East Tennessee State University are diving into the complex science of polysubstance use to …