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(Morris Animal Foundation) Oysters likely suffered toxic effects from the oil dispersant Corexit® 9500 when it was used to clean...

As if college were not difficult enough, more than one-third of first-year university students in eight industrialized countries around the...

A £3 million interdisciplinary research project is to address the growing threat of drug-resistant infections in India. The project will...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - After a pathogen infects the body, the immune system responds with a remarkable -- and...

(University of Helsinki) Recent research finds that MAPK pathway, which is typically altered in many cancers, is required for regulation...

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered a key mechanism by which skin begins to develop in embryos, shedding light...

Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have created a massive database of the...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Young people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual are at increased risk of using substances such...

Bottom Line: Contrast sensitivity is a measure of how well someone sees an image against a background. Diminished contrast sensitivity...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered using mice and...

Credit: Gil Costa, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown Though it has been many millennia since human lives were regularly threatened...

Credit: UB-CIBERES A scientific study, conducted with animal models, states that sleep apnea can favour lung cancer growth in young...

Doctors should consider treating chronic pain patients with sugar pills Placebo pills relieve pain as effectively as drugs for half...

Scientific and medical institutions must fundamentally reconsider how they address sexual harassment in the workplace, three national leaders in gender...

Credit: University of Utah Health While about 11 percent of children (4-17 years old) nationwide have been diagnosed with attention-deficit...

A new USC Dornsife study indicates that aging may have originated at the very beginning of the evolution of life,...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Your body's blood cells are manufactured by hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow. But...

Credit: European Journal of Public Health Recent trends show that primary reason for the measles outbreak, affecting several European countries,...

Credit: Courtesy of the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) announces that...

The majority of partnered, home-dwelling people in the U.S. with dementia are sexually active, according to a University of Chicago...