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(Edmonton, AB) Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a debilitating disease of the lung blood vessels that causes heart failure and...

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences in Japan and international collaborators have found that in humanized mice,...

Different types of brain tumours may use strikingly similar approaches to generate and use energy to survive in the brain,...

NEW YORK, October 25, 2017 - A new study published in PLOS ONE demonstrates that Videssa® Breast, a multi-protein biomarker...

CHAPEL HILL -- Preserving sexual function was important to many men facing treatment for prostate cancer, according to a recent...

Credit: Claudia Ehrlich Patients with gallbladder cancer often show few or no symptoms for long periods of time. As a...

CHAPEL HILL -- DNA damage occurs routinely within your cells due to sun exposure, smoking and sometimes during the normal...

Credit: ©2017 Tagami et al. Cell Reports 21, Issue1, 259-273. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.09.032 (Osaka, Japan) A tremendous amount of Amyloid-β peptide...

Intriguing antitumor activity is found in a very promising class of natural compounds: cyclic depsipeptides, which have a challenging structure...

Credit: The American Chemical Society A new class of drugs for blood cancers such as leukemia and multiple myeloma is...

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL - October 24, 2017 - Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps...

Proton therapy treatment for prostate cancer is associated with higher survival rates and decreased risk of complications compared to intensity-modulated...

CHICAGO - A study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that proton beam therapy, in combination with chemotherapy, prior...

(University of Stirling) A new £1.1million trial led by the University of Stirling will assess whether a self-management programme could...

Seizures are a common result of traumatic brain injury, especially in military veterans. A new study funded by the DOD,...

Credit: Markus Riedl Y chromosomes, which are only inherited paternally, evolved from "normal" chromosomes known as autosomes. As males only...

URBANA, Ill. - In the decade after the 1992 Earth Summit, at least $14 billion was devoted to biodiversity conservation...

The ability to charge cellphones in seconds is one step closer after researchers at the University of Waterloo used nanotechnology...

Credit: michael-podger/Creative commons Natural surroundings, including green spaces, may be beneficial for brain development in children, but evidence is still...

Using advanced machine learning, a cross disciplinary team of University of California San Diego researchers developed technology that mined Twitter...