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Think summer holidays and you'll likely call up images of a beautiful beach or a glittering blue lake. But more...

Inhibiting the Jagged 1 protein in mice prevents the proliferation and growth of colon and rectal tumours. What is more,...

Credit: UBC Okanagan Researchers have determined that new mothers exposed to cigarette smoke in their homes, stop breastfeeding sooner than...

Obesity increases a person's risk for severe complications from influenza, including hospitalization and even death. It may also play a...

Alzheimer's disease is an increasingly prevalent, neurodegenerative condition that erodes memory and other cognitive functions. Treatments for this complex disease...

Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON - Abundant in human babies and small mammals, brown adipose tissue (BAT), or...

Credit: Joslin Diabetes Center Communications Office BOSTON - (August 2, 2018) - Some people respond well to both aerobic exercise...

(Boston)--The world's rising obesity epidemic is associated with a broad spectrum of ailments including atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL)...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Drawing on genomic data from more than one million individuals, researchers from the University of Michigan...

Credit: CC LA JOLLA, CA--Dengue and Zika viruses are closely related and carried by mosquitos. In infested subtropical and tropical...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 2, 2018--Metabolomics is the latest omics systems science technology with...

Credit: Rodrigo Aragua/AFP The oldest living seeds found on Earth germinated after resting more than 30,000 years in Arctic soils....

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Obesity, which increases influenza disease severity, also extends by about 1.5 days how long influenza A virus...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA--A new study using machine learning has identified brain-based dimensions of mental health disorders, an advance towards...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of...

Credit: Photo taken by Takafumi Fujimoto A DNA probing technique clarifies the mechanism behind clonal reproduction of female dojo loach...

August 2, 2018 - A long-term follow-up study from Australia confirms that hip implants with components made of cross-linked polyethylene...

In direct contradiction to marketing efforts claiming that hookah (water pipe) smoking is less hazardous to health than cigarettes, a...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN- August 02, 2018 - Do dopamine neurons have a role in causing cues in our environment to acquire...

Credit: Andrew Hill Scientists have completed a major effort to map the regulatory landscape of the mouse genome at a...