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Credit: Zandi lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A virus, the simplest physical object in biology, consists of a protein...

Credit: UIC/Monika Marko and TJ Crawford Although up to 20 percent of adolescents experience a depressive episode each year, the...

The Allen Institute today debuted the 2018 Next Generation Leaders, a group of six early-career neuroscientists who will participate in...

Leaders from Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Novartis announced today a new collaboration to work together to...

The world's largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed and built to work in the same way a human brain does has been...

To live successfully and independently, older adults need to be able to manage two different levels of life skills: basic...

Credit: The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio - The trick to boosting crops in drought-prone, food-insecure areas of West Africa...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ - November 2, 2018 -The key economic indicators for Americans with disabilities continued to...

Bottom Line: Treatment in intensive care units (ICUs) is driven by urgency rather than economic considerations. Many clinicians have been...

Bottom Line: This study analyzed data for about 6,400 patients who had heart attacks to compare black and white patients...

Experts believe that where on the body people store surplus fat, whether round their middle or round the liver, may...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- College students who drink alcohol don't typically intend to drink to the point that they "black out,"...

From the standpoint of heart health, the Tsimane are a model group. A population indigenous to the Bolivian Amazon, the...

Electrodes are placed on the patient's chest area to record cardiac electrical activity - e.g. to determine whether the heart...

DALLAS - Nov. 2, 2018 - UT Southwestern's O'Donnell Brain Institute will help in a national effort to understand the...

Washington, DC (November 2, 2018) -- The American College of Physicians (ACP) appreciates that the final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Chemotherapy has been associated with increased risk of leukemia years after the treatment, but what...

Boston, MA -- To be more transparent and to promote communication with patients after medical injuries, many hospitals have implemented...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Molecular virologist Chad Petit, Ph.D., uses basic science to fight influenza -- through experiments at...

Credit: NASA handout/Britney Schmidt/Dead Pixel VFX/Univ. of Texas at Austin NASA has navigated our solar system with spacecraft and landers,...