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A certain proportion of the adult population has not only white adipose (or fatty) tissue, but also the brown kind....

Bottom Line: An estimated 40 to 54 million Google searches for sexual harassment and assault were recorded in the United States...

Sanjay Gupta, PhD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center will receive $962,000...

Bottom Line: Hepatitis C virus infection is a major cause of illness and death in the United States and injection...

Almost 60 percent of patients were prescribed antibiotics in a way that did not follow AUA guidelines A new study...

Credit: Yoshizawa et al. Biology Letters, Nov. 21, 2018 In a group of bark lice, a penis has evolved twice...

Bottom Line: Opioids for pain management in pediatric patients are sometimes necessary but their use has raised concerns about the effects...

Characters on labels affect desire to buy healthy versus decadent foodsCredit: Brigham Young University Stories about villains and heroes have...

A paper by Simone Ghislandi and colleagues proposes a simple Human Life Indicator, that overcomes some of the UN's Human...

Credit: Creative Commons CC0. The mass death of flying foxes in extreme heat in North Queensland last month underscores the...

A diet based on Mediterranean principles enhances the effect of these drugs in patients who already had a heart attack...

This article by Dr. Jihong Guan et al. is published in Current Bioinformatics, Volume 13, Issue 6, 2018Credit: Bentham Science...

Risk greatest in people with later-stage cancers and lung and colon cancers (WASHINGTON, December 21, 2018) -- Older adults with...

An important step for regenerative medicine Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the stem cell institute HI-STEM*...

Mass.-General-developed system able to 'explain' reasons behind decisions based on CT scan imagesCredit: Hyunkwang Lee, Harvard School of Engineering and...

Credit: Kanazawa University Lysosomes are filled with more than 50 different hydrolytic enzymes, which are capable of digesting most cellular...

Photosynthetic complex I is a key element in photosynthetic electron transport, but little has been known about it so farCredit:...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Dec. 21, 2018 - The high head impact and concussion rates in football are of increasing concern,...

Credit: MBI Berlin X-ray spectroscopy provides direct access into the nature of chemical bonds, from which the outcome of chemical...

Isolated human hepatocytes are essential tools in preclinical and clinical liver research, but cell quality is highly variable. Now, researchers...