Health

The University of Akron's Conquer Chiari Research Center (CCRC) will hold an open house on Saturday, July 21, at the...

In-game purchasing systems, such as 'loot boxes', in popular online games resemble gambling and may pose financial risks for vulnerable...

Credit: Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center A DNA-level biomarker (MGMT promoter methylation) can be used to help predict survival...

Glioma is the most common type of primary malignant brain tumor in the United States; glioblastoma being the most common...

NEW YORK AND MAIDENHEAD, UK, JUNE 28, 2018 - The Human Vaccines Project, a nonprofit public-private partnership focused on decoding...

Credit: James McNew/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 28, 2018) -- James McNew's and Michael Stern's biochemical hunt for the root...

Boston, MA -- The Zika virus, which continues to cause microcephaly and other neurological complications in infants whose mothers were...

The longer a woman spends living in a neighborhood low on the socio-economic scale, the more likely she is to...

Credit: Jen Roth URBANA, Ill. - Rice is the third most widely grown cereal grain worldwide, and the bran left...

Rockville, Md. (June 28, 2018)--A new study suggests that when a high-fat, high-sugar diet that leads to obesity is paired...

A patient from Birmingham is the first person to be recruited into a new worldwide study to test new treatments...

Credit: The illustration is courtesy of the authors and appears in the Molecular Cell paper. Baltimore, MD--A tremendous amount of...

In adults, tibia (shinbone) fractures are usually fixed through the surgical implantation of a slender metal rod called an intramedullary...

Washington, DC, June 28, 2018 For the majority of affected youth, anxiety disorders are chronic, even after a successful course...

A Portsmouth researcher is developing a mathematical model aimed at speeding up the delivery of life-saving blood to victims of...

Researchers have identified a new gene-activation pathway caused by lipids associated with coronary artery disease, a finding that could help...

The ESC Congress 2018 press programme is announced today. Journalists are invited to six late breaking science press conferences plus...

Scientists have pinpointed minute exosomes as the main vehicle that allow the spread of toxic proteins that trigger the onset...

Credit: Hui-Chen Lu, Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Researchers at Indiana University have found early evidence that tiny snippets of...

A combination of natural microtubules and synthetic macrocyclic receptors allows for the light-controlled, reversible aggregation of the microtubules into larger...