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Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered a new genetic disease and a method for detecting more unexplained...

Credit: Bruce Blausen via Wikimedia Commons DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke University research team has found a way to help...

Frailty is a health condition that increases risks of poor health, falls, disability, and death in older adults. Signs of...

CLEMSON, South Carolina - With an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Center for Biomedical Research Excellence,...

Credit: Naoyuki Inagaki The brain can discriminate over one trillion different odors. Once entering the nose, an odor activates olfactory...

Credit: Kessler Foundation Erkut Kucukboyaci, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Traumatic Brain Injury Research at Kessler Foundation, has been awarded a...

Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (October 18, 2018) ... The National Science Foundation awarded $1,182,305 to the University of...

October 18, 2018 - For premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), skin-to-skin contact with parents influences levels...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Among more than 72,000 deaths in the U.S. last year, fentanyl -- a highly potent prescription opioid...

Credit: Ill./©: Alessandro Agostini, JGU Whenever you see green color out in nature, you are likely to look at chlorophyll....

Children who develop inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease) have an increased risk of death, both in childhood...

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have discovered a potentially new approach to deliver therapeutics more effectively...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 18, 2018--A new study identified a significant association between HIV...

Credit: Shawn Rocco/ Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- As e-cigarette use expands among teens in the U.S., so have vaping...

Researchers from the School of Economics set out to establish to what extent living under communism, both in terms of...

Credit: Gavin Palowitch, Penn State Some bacterial pathogens, including those that cause strep throat and pneumonia, are able to create...

Credit: Video courtesy of Silvia Bunge A half-decade ago, UC Berkeley neuroscientists discovered that training for law school admission exams...

Credit: Seattle Children's Advances in optimisation of the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 in zebrafish disease models offer a new level of...

TODAY'S CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS Late-breaking trials Systemic thrombolysis in patients with known and unknown time window. A pre-specified subgroup analysis of...

Credit: University of Michigan Despite years of warnings that older adults shouldn't take sedative drugs that put them at risk...