Month: June 2017

In autoimmune diseases, the immune system wrongly identifies its "enemy", and produces antibodies that attack the patient's own cells. One ...

To understand how human activities are affecting the planet, scientists often study the health of animals in the wild. Now ...

Five years ago, a highly publicized meta-analysis of more than 200 studies concluded that organic food was no more nutritious ...

As tech billionaires like Elon Musk and scientists like Stephen Hawking, warn of an impending artificial intelligence arms race, a ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new surgical ...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, 14th of June, 2017, Baltimore, MD, Insilico Medicine, Mail.Ru Group in collaboration with the center for ...

Young adults who had chemotherapy as a child have decreased cognitive flexibility and a weaker short-term memory. Their ability to ...

Credit: University of Plymouth Imagine walking along a South Devon beach on a lovely day. The waves are lapping on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (June 14, 2017) -- "Oh, my aching back!" It's not an uncommon complaint heard from both men and ...

Male birds tend to be better singers than females--but does the basis for this difference lie in the brain or ...

Portland, Ore., June 14, 2017 - The techniques used to clean and sterilize flexible ureteroscopes leave behind contamination including debris, ...

Portland, Ore., June 14, 2017 - Thirty-three of 89 (37 percent) heater-cooler units assessed between July 2015 and December 2016 ...

Portland, Ore., June 14, 2017 - While nearly 400,000 residents of long-term care facilities die as a result of healthcare ...

Credit: NASA In each life a little rain must fall, but in space, one of the biggest risks to astronauts' ...

Credit: Nisma Mujahid and David E. Fisher Researchers in Boston have developed a class of small molecules that successfully penetrates ...

Using the OncoArray genotyping platform developed by multiple cancer consortia, a recent large aggregated genomewide association study identifies new susceptibility ...

Credit: Nisma Mujahid and David E. Fisher, MD, PhD, Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital Investigators ...

Researchers have identified the mechanism which causes a build-up of fat in the liver in a disease affecting one in ...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina A healthy gut requires a molecule called gp96 to train the immune system to ...

ESMO, the leading European professional organisation for medical oncology, has announced that the ESMO 2019 Annual Congress will take place ...