Credit: Courtesy of Sharon Bickel, Dartmouth College. For women in their 30s and beyond, the probability of a pregnancy that ...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 12, 2017-A nationwide study of school principals has shown that ...

Credit: (Picture: Janos Groh) Childhood dementia is an inherited disorder that affects the metabolism of the brain. Initial symptoms include ...

Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Many patients with melanoma need a sentinel-lymph-node biopsy to determine if cancer cells have spread there, ...

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A research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University leveraged its organ-on-a-chip technology to develop ...

Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga, UNC Health Care Chapel Hill, NC – In a landmark study, UNC School of Medicine researchers have ...

Credit: Indiana University Bloomington While positive attitudes toward gay men and lesbians have increased over recent decades, a new study ...

Since the completion of the human genome an important goal has been to elucidate the function of the now known ...

Credit: Wolfgang Lab, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC – Cystic fibrosis (CF) shortens life by making the lungs ...

Researchers at Osaka University, Japan uncovered the mechanisms that suppress the propagation of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) with the ...

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) LOS ANGELES (Sept. 21, 2017) — For years, medical investigators have ...

For years, scientists have struggled to find a way to block a protein known to play an important role in ...

Credit: ATS Aug. 8, 2017 — The opioid crisis in the United States is resulting in increased admissions to hospital ...

The toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense, is a photosynthetic plankton–a microscopic organism floating in the ocean, unable to swim against a ...

Credit: © Manuel Irimia, CRG. A molecular switch that flips between different versions of genes could be crucial for maintaining ...

IMAGE: Concentric rings in a fruit fly larva's antenna result from a set of genetic control "switches " that interact ...

Credit: Loyola Medicine Loyola Medicine radiation oncologist Edward Melian, MD, has received the Chicago Radiological Society's 2017 Distinguished Service Award, ...

Credit: Kevin Jiang for the University of Chicago Medicine A new, minimally invasive procedure appears to be effective for many ...

Credit: Fangyuan Hua Despite massive efforts at reforestation, China's native forests continue to be displaced by plantations. A new study ...