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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds....

The research group of Prof Dr Ellen Goossens (VUB) hopes to be the first in the world to re-implant previously...

In the war against cancer, the first step towards treating them is an accurate diagnosis of the problem. A technique...

Wetland plants have a high tolerance against flooding due to the formation of “lysigenous aerenchyma,” air channels that help transfer...

TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 4, 2022) -- The University of South Florida recently received a highly competitive National Institutes of Health...

Beating the bite of mosquitoes this spring and summer could hinge on your attire and your skin. New research led...

Research by Adeen Flinker and Müge Özker at New York University reports regions of the brain that signal when the...

Improvements in air quality are associated with slower cognitive decline in women, according to a new study led by Diana...

Many bacteria and unicellular algae have light-driven pumps in their cell membranes: proteins that change shape when exposed to photons...

As humans fill the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide, much of it gets absorbed by the oceans, acidifying them—a potential...

For decades, a small group of cutting-edge medical researchers have been studying a biochemical, DNA tagging system, which switches genes...

The International Osteoporosis Foundation’s (IOF) Capture the Fracture® program, which this year proudly marks a decade of operation, has welcomed the 700th...

Obesity is known to cause cardiometabolic diseases like hypertension and diabetes but attributing these diseases to merely an overabundance of...

A gene-silencing tool could enable new opportunities for advancing basic biomedical research and drug development.Credit: © 2022 KAUST; Veronica Moraru....

We now know that the microbes that live in our intestines – our microbiome – influence our health in many...

The World Health Organization projects that starting in 2030, over a million people will die each year from liver cancer. Cold Spring...

An international team of researchers has discovered that Schwann cells—which are abundant in the peripheral nervous system and create a...

Previous studies have shown that wisdom is a personality trait underpinning mental health and well-being. Recently, researchers at University of...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that drug overdose deaths topped 100,000 for the first time...

The long-term use of oral contraceptives and certain methods of tubal ligation (TL) were associated with lower levels of a...