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WASHINGTON (June 7, 2017) -- Centenarians have a lower incidence of chronic illness than those in their 80s and 90s,...

June 7, 2017-- The timing of a girl's first menstruation may affect her first sexual encounter, first pregnancy, and her...

Credit: The Dartmouth Institute Do wealthier people receive too much medical care? In a Perspective article recently published in the...

Credit: Léo Ramos Chaves Chemical ripeners, also known as growth regulators, are widely used in Brazil's sugarcane industry to increase...

(WASHINGTON, June 6, 2017) -- Some patients with relapsed or treatment-resistant acute myeloid leukemia, a form of blood cancer for...

Credit: Sunhua Wan, Hsiang-Chieh Lee, Xiaolei Huang, Ting Xu, Tao Xu, Xianxu Zeng, Zhan Zhang, Yuri Sheikine, James L. Connolly,...

Credit: Steven Jackson When you dine on curry and baked apples, enjoy the fact that you are eating something that...

Credit: Becattini et al., 2017 Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York have discovered that bacteria living...

Credit: Michelle Aimée Oesch, University of Zurich Cancer is one of the most frequent diseases not only in people, but...

Credit: IDIBELL A research team from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) has managed to characterize the complete epigenomes of...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Summary: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) affects over 300,000 people worldwide each year, and most patients already...

Credit: Johns Hopkins University When trying to be heard over noise, humans and animals raise their voices. It's a split-second...

A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicates that the customary pembrolizumab dose for treatment...

Credit: Image courtesy of Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that cancer cells appear to...

Credit: © UNIGE / Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan Things couldn't be simpler at the start: the cells divide into two identical cells...

The cell surface of a common soil bacteria (Streptomyces sp.) is not only hydrophobic but it protects the organism from...

Credit: L. Alferink and S. Darwish Murad Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 6, 2017 - Chronic liver diseases rank as the...

Apexian Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing novel compounds to treat cancer, has licensed all available patented and...

Delirium is a medical term for "sudden confusion." It is an abrupt, rapid change in mental function and can cause...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Results of a 303-patient, multi-national phase III clinical trial known as ALEX published today...