Month: June 2017

Advance directives (ADs) are legal documents you can use to state in advance what medical treatments you do or do ...

Credit: Steve Schar COLUMBIA, Mo. - As the summer months approach, most people turn to thoughts of sunshine, outdoor barbecues ...

Credit: Paula Burch-Celentano/Tulane University Over the last decade, many drugs that have been pulled from the market due to toxicity ...

How do we make decisions? Or rather, how do our neurons make decisions for us? Do individual neurons have a ...

At least 100,000 military veterans who served in the 1990-1991 Gulf War were exposed to chemical weapons, released into the ...

Credit: Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology, Neuroscience and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) research at Kessler Foundation, and director of ...

A research study led by University of Minnesota engineers gives new insight into how cancer cells move based on their ...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Sales of the essential oil copaiba are increasing, at least in part, because more than 54 ...

Apexian Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing novel compounds to treat cancer, has licensed all available patented and ...

A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicates that the customary pembrolizumab dose for treatment ...

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and New America Media (NAM) have selected 18 distinguished reporters for the next cohort ...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 6, 2017) Neurons have long enjoyed the spotlight in neuroscience--and for good reason: they are ...

Children born to women who had gestational diabetes and drank at least one artificially sweetened beverage per day during pregnancy ...

Credit: Cecilie Varming Jacobsen Postdoc at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen Pia Snitkjaer has carried ...

Credit: Faith Hark / The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - June 6, 2017 - A vaccine developed at ...

Credit: Peter Barta / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital molecular biologists have identified an enzyme ...

(University of Texas at Austin) Scientists at The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have found that a devastating ...

Under the pledges made by countries under the Paris Agreement on climate change, greenhouse gas emissions could range from 47 ...

Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - Last summer, farmers in the Midwest got an unwelcome surprise after planting native ...

Credit: Saint Louis University In a recent paper published in PLOS One, Saint Louis University professor of physics Jean Potvin, ...