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Scientists have shed light on how a major cause of human and animal disease can jump between species, by studying...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- It sounds like science fiction: Nefarious genes clone themselves and settle their rogue copies in distant...

San Francisco--The most innovative studies in neurointerventional care, cutting-edge sessions on artificial intelligence, and content-rich discussions on best practices and...

Credit: Imperial College London Scientists have unveiled clues about a mysterious molecule called Yin Yang1 - and revealed it may...

Credit: Luke MacQueen/Disease Biophysics Group/Harvard SEAS Harvard University researchers have bioengineered a three-dimensional model of a human left heart ventricle...

Chicago, July 22, 2018 - The first dementia prevalence data from a large population of lesbian, gay and bisexual older...

Published in today's Medical Journal of Australia, the study of 2898 patients (2183 men, 715 women) reveals that six months...

CHICAGO, July 22, 2018 - Despite more than two decades of advances in diagnostic criteria and technology, symptoms of Alzheimer's...

It seems like the most banal advice you could give an athlete: don't overtrain. And yet, when the National Football...

There are pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB) who have had 30-year careers, but as UC Riverside demographer David Swanson...

Diabetes assessment currently relies on measurement of blood sugar levels -- but a simple saliva sample could replace this, says...

New research has shown that older adults who exercise above current recommended levels have a reduced risk of developing chronic...

When it comes to being fit, are genes or lifestyle -- nature or nurture -- more important? Researchers at San...

The hormone cortisol rises and falls naturally throughout the day and can spike in response to stress, but current methods...

Credit: Source: Thomas Laux An international team led by the Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux has shown that...

Credit: Heidelberg University Hospital/ HITS/ ZMBH Malaria parasites of the genus Plasmodium move ten times faster through the skin than...

In eukaryotic cells, linear genetic DNA wraps around histones to form stable nucleosomes that further assemble to form chromatins. Nucleosomes...

Credit: Photo by Kelly Sutherland EUGENE, Ore. - July 20, 2018 - Tubular colonial jellies known as pyrosomes that arrived...

Led by Benoit Vanhollebeke, WELBIO investigator at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the Laboratory of Neurovascular Signaling (ULB's Faculty...

Credit: Photo (inset, right) by Francisco Palacios. Design renderings by Susan G. Stewart and Rana Abudayyeh. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - In...