Certain characteristics may increase patients’ risk for needing emergency care Highlights • Risk factors for emergency department visits included younger...

Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research In an important step towards eradicating HIV-associated viral reservoirs, researchers at Sydney's Westmead Institute...

Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional crystal, which was obtained experimentally and investigated regarding its unique chemical and physical properties....

Credit: Margareta Gustafsson Kubista/University of Gothenburg Researchers have identified an antioxidant – richly occurring in broccoli – as a new...

Credit: Damon Meharg/Winship Cancer Institute When cancer cells split off from a tumor to seed deadly metastases, they are thought...

Credit: RIKEN Billions of cells in our bodies die every day in an important process called apoptosis. Now, researchers at...

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2017–A new study ranking the safety and effectiveness of four drugs...

Regions of the brain associated with stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. Credit: National Institutes of Health Philadelphia, PA, October 31,...

Credit: Geoghegan JL, et al. (2017) On occasion, a virus may jump from one host species to another and adapt...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Consumption of dietary fiber can prevent obesity, metabolic syndrome and adverse changes in the intestine by...

Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES – People with paraplegia due to spinal cord injury may eventually get a chance...

Credit: UAHS BioCommunications University of Arizona researchers are launching an international consortium to determine if better regulation of a protein...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been called "the perfect pathogen." These bacteria hijack human macrophages, persist inside...

Credit: Yusuke Fujioka, Shinsuke Ishigaki, and Gen Sobue Nagoya, Japan – Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a type of dementia...