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June 20, 2017 -- Impairments in processing and using information that help with decision-making and planning simple tasks such as...

A plant extract used for centuries in traditional medicine in Nigeria could form the basis of a new drug to...

GENEVA, Switzerland 20 June 2017 - Last week Clarivate Analytics released the 2017 Impact Factor (IF) in the Journal Citation...

Credit: SIAM Abdominal obesity, or fat that accumulates around one's stomach and abdomen, has long been considered to pose a...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 20, 2017--A public health perspective of the rise in terrorism...

SAN DIEGO, June 20, 2017 -- Johnson & Johnson today named Douglas Wallace, Ph.D., of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, winner...

BERKELEY, CA (June 20, 2017): Are you buying antimicrobial or antibacterial soaps? According to over 200 scientists and medical professionals,...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The use of topical antibiotics can dramatically alter communities of bacteria that live on the...

Credit: Dr Shelby Temple Dr Shelby Temple, from the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences, has been named Innovator...

A core assumption in the study of disease-causing genes has been that they are clustered in molecular pathways directly connected...

A team of scientists from the VIB lab of Han Remaut (VIB-VUB) and the lab of Yves Dufrêne at UCL...

Credit: UNC/ NCSU Joint Biomedical Engineering Program. CHAPEL HILL, NC - Technology invented in a laboratory in the UNC-NC State...

Leading figures addressing the many and varied challenges faced by developing countries will be attending a major conference at the...

KNOXVILLE --Plant diseases pose a serious threat to global food security, especially in developing countries, where millions of people depend...

Perfusion in the human placenta is an important physiological phenomenon which shows the placental conditions. The magnitude of placental perfusion...

New research from the University of Eastern Finland shows that the APP gene variant protecting against Alzheimer's disease significantly decreases...

Credit: University of Seville A group of researchers from the Area of Toxicology in the Department of Nutrition and Bromatology....

Research has shown that how trusting a person is may depend, at least in part, on his or her genes....

Researchers from the IIT- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Lecce, Italy, and the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, have...

When top athletes cheat it makes headline news. Retaliating badly to a foul, faking an injury, or deliberately harming an...