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Credit: Ann Ross Forensic anthropology researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that can provide an approximate...

Triggering pathological gamblers to envision a future personal experience reduces their preference for an immediate reward over a larger, delayed...

Credit: Nicole Santo/UPMC PITTSBURGH, June 5, 2017 - While the proportion of adults with severe obesity using prescription opioids initially...

Credit: Sullivan Lab, UC Santa Cruz The DNA vital to the life of a cell is packaged in chromosomes, and...

Credit: (c) 2017 Kinoshita M. et al. Journal of Cell Biology. VOL:216 NO:4 1183-1204. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201607086 Osaka, Japan - Biological...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 5, 2017--The devastating effects of Zika virus on the brain...

Mild hearing loss from exposure to less than one hour of loud noise leads to a reorganization of circuits in...

MAYWOOD, IL - Memory loss, language problems and other symptoms of cognitive decline are strongly associated with diseases of the...

BOSTON -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded four Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers with Outstanding Investigator Awards (OIA) for...

Credit: UCF, College of Medicine A team of researchers at the University of Central Florida is using breakthrough gene-editing technology...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Heart muscle is one of the least renewable tissues in the body, which is one...

Credit: Laura Randolph, Penn State Whether using embryonic or adult stem cells, coercing these master cells to convert to the...

Credit: UIC How does resolved parental infertility relate to children's performance in school? A University of Illinois at Chicago sociologist...

A treatment for depression using Emotional Faces Memory Task (EFMT), a technology originally developed by two Mount Sinai researchers, resulted...

Credit: National University of Singapore A research team led by Assistant Professor Shefaly Shorey from the Alice Lee Centre for...

Credit: Michael Shribak, Irina Arkhipova WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Rotifers are tough, microscopic organisms highly resistant to radiation and repeated...

Credit: NIAID A clinical trial of an experimental vaccine to prevent infection with chikungunya virus is now enrolling healthy adult...

Preliminary results of a new study show that social jet lag has emerged as an important circadian marker for health...

To help reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics for common childhood illnesses, parents would benefit from fuller communication from their health...

Credit: © 2017 Christian Voolstra Excess nitrogen is shown to disrupt coral-algae symbiosis, triggering bleaching even in the absence of...