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Leesburg, VA, May 13, 2022—According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), to ensure that patients with emergent or life-threatening...

Glucose is the sugar we absorb from the foods we eat. It is the fuel that powers every cell in...

Water scarcity is a growing problem around the world. Desalination of seawater is an established method to produce drinkable water...

Imagine sitting at a meeting where the shape of the table and your place at it might impact how you...

Scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a first-of-its-kind cross-tissue cell atlas, and in collaboration with...

With rare exceptions, each of the trillions of cells in our bodies carries an exact duplicate of the human genome,...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—May 12, 2022—Viruses in the herpesvirus family are leading causes of birth defects, blindness, and failed organ transplants...

CHICAGO: Delays in surgery for esophageal cancer did not appear to have much impact on patients’ relative survival for early-stage...

Despite stereotypes to the contrary, many older women have active sex lives into their 70s, a new poll shows. But...

Vascular diseases are public enemy number one: the leading killers worldwide, accounting for nearly a third of all human deaths...

For all their uncanny intelligence and seemingly supernatural abilities to change color and regenerate limbs, octopuses often suffer a tragic...

Farming has been thought to originate from a single population in Southwest Asia, which covers parts of the modern-day Middle...

Fresh techniques to aid seizure diagnosis and surgical planning stand to benefit millions of epilepsy patients, but the path to...

KANSAS CITY, MO—May 12, 2022—New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research examines how cavefish, surface-dwelling river fish that...

The genetic origins of the first agriculturalists in the Neolithic period long seemed to lie in the Near East. A...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, one of the major causes of dependency and disability in older...

MS patients treated with Rituximab have better responses to the COVID-19 vaccine if they have higher B cell counts. This...

Did the world’s largest prehistoric shark need an orthodontist, or did it just have a bad lunch? Credit: Image: Jorge Gonzalez...

In “proof of concept” experiments with mouse and human cells and tissues, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have designed...

 Credit: Tel Aviv University   Sleep apnea can be life-threatening and can even contribute to a variety of health problems...