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ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Inherited pathogenic variants in protein coding genes BARD1 and RAD51D increase a woman's likelihood of developing breast...

Impaired Sound Processing May Explain Persistent Hearing Deficits in People With Cochlear Implants Cochlear implants have restored hearing in hundreds...

GLENVIEW, IL, Dec. 7, 2016 - Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a major risk for patients suffering from venous thromboembolism (VTE)...

Iron accumulation in myocardial cells, potentially resulting in heart failure or fatal arrhythmia, is one of the complications most feared...

Credit: Multiscale Materials Laboratory/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 7, 2016) - Bringing order to disorder is key to making stronger...

Credit: Image provided by Jeffrey R. Martens, Thomas H. Maren Professor and Chairman of the University of Florida, College of...

BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) commends Congress for strengthening privacy protections for genetics research participants...

Over the past three years, Canadian women desperate to conceive a child endured more than 82,000 attempts to become impregnated...

Credit: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) In recognition of their efforts to develop new treatments...

Credit: Ian Grettenberger, University of California, Davis Neonicotinoids -- the most widely used class of insecticides -- significantly reduce populations...

BOSTON - A personalized cancer vaccine markedly improved outcomes for patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a potentially lethal...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2016 - Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC have engineered a protein...

Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning....

Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA/Goddard Rapid Response Team NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of newly formed Tropical Cyclone 05B in...

A computer program is diving deep into water quality data from Pennsylvania, helping scientists detect potential environmental impacts of Marcellus...

Credit: (Photo by Jacquelynne Hernandez) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)...

Simon Fraser University researchers have found that high-resolution brain scans, coupled with computational analysis, could play a critical role in...

(SALT LAKE CITY) -- As a teenager just moved to Iowa from war-ravaged Germany in 1950, John M. Opitz, M.D.,...

The next time you place your coffee order, imagine slapping onto your to-go cup a sticker that acts as an...

microRNAs (miRNA) are recently discovered, short segments of RNA, which play vital roles in health and disease. microRNA over- or...