Month: June 2017

(PeerJ) In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, ornithologist Dr. Miguel A. ...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON ? Two challenges in treating patients with estrogen-positive breast cancer (ER+) have been an ...

In an editorial to be published on Tuesday 27th June 2017 in the journal ecancermedicalscience, Anthony Hatswell of BresMed (an ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. - Minute traces of gadolinium, the contrast agent used to enhance MR images, are often retained in ...

BOSTON - A comprehensive program to reduce or prevent childhood obesity in low-income communities led to significant improvements in obesity-related ...

People with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) often show a reduced sensitivity to contextual information in perceptual tasks, but new research ...

Boston, MA - A large-scale effort to reduce childhood obesity in two low-income Massachusetts communities resulted in some modest improvements ...

Credit: NIH-funded image of apoptotic HeLa cell by the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research / Thomas Deerinck / ...

Credit: University of Washington When women undergo lumpectomies to remove breast cancer, doctors try to remove all the cancerous tissue ...

Credit: Jennifer E. Fairman/Johns Hopkins University Discovering the function of a gene requires cloning a DNA sequence and expressing it. ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- After radiation treatment, dying cancer cells spit out mutated proteins into the body. Scientists now know ...

Farmers earn more profits when there is demand for corn for biofuel instead of for food only. This can lead ...

Credit: Provided by TAN Xiao Why do some memories last a lifetime while others never persist for more than a ...

FINDINGS A streamlined and integrated method of tracking medical records called a laboratory health information exchange narrowed the gap in ...

Credit: Seth Dixon / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital immunologists have discovered how immune cells ...

Credit: Kris Hanning, UAHS BioCommunications TUCSON, Ariz. - After showing that individuals who take levodopa, or l-dopa, for movement disorders ...

Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON - (June 26, 2017) - Thirty-six percent of Hispanic families in the U.S. with a common form ...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - June 26, 2017 - Using a new skin cell model, researchers have overcome a barrier ...

Credit: CHEST GLENVIEW, IL, June 26, 2017 - Sepsis presents a major challenge for health care providers, especially in low-income ...

Many genes linked to late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are expressed in myeloid cells and regulated by a single protein, according ...