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Credit: L+L Hundreds of United States cities will be able to identify their most pressing health needs more accurately--thanks to...

Credit: Alex Nord/UC Davis While the definitive causes remain unclear, several genetic and environmental factors increase the likelihood of autism...

Credit: Andrew Deines, Michigan State University Harvests from freshwater fisheries such as the Great Lakes could total more than 12...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Researchers have identified a network of neurons that plays a vital role in learning vocalizations...

Credit: Lancaster University 'A trade in people' with learning disabilities and/or autism has been uncovered by a partnership of activists,...

SEATTLE -- June 27, 2017 -- A team of scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will lead an initiative...

(Boston)--In an effort to securely share medical data between the U.S. and India, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has...

Depression presents an enormous disease burden, with a reported 350 million people worldwide suffering from the disease, but traditional SSRI...

A diagnostic technique that can detect tiny molecules signalling the presence of cancer could be on the horizon. The possibility...

Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The heart is a dynamic muscle that grows and shrinks in response...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--June 27, 2017--Protein fragments found in semen, and previously only known for their ability to enhance HIV infection,...

Credit: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Amsterdam, NL, June 27, 2017 - The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (JAD) is pleased to...

Using these proteins, originally found in jellyfish to make them glow, the team where able to focus laser beams on...

ANN ARBOR--Teens expect to experience some digital forms of abuse in dating, but girls may be suffering more severe emotional...

Washington, DC - June 27, 2017 - Researchers have now discovered a new mobile colistin resistance gene, mcr-3, in E....

Scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Riverside have demonstrated a way to edit the genome of disease-carrying mosquitoes that brings...

No one wants to hear that they have a mutation in their DNA associated with the development of cancer. But...

Boston, MA - A large-scale effort to reduce childhood obesity in two low-income Massachusetts communities resulted in some modest improvements...

Credit: J. Quílez Cinca/Unizar Researchers from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) have analysed drinking water and detected oocysts of Cryptosporidium...

Building transient electronics is usually about doing something to make them stop working: blast them with light, soak them with...