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Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Maintaining a good balance of iron in the body is necessary for health: too...

The federal government's bill C-45 to legalize marijuana in Canada will jeopardize the health of young people and Parliament should...

The feeling of constantly being on edge, always having to take care of everything, not being able to find a...

First Nations and Inuit babies were hospitalized much more often in the first year of life compared with non-Indigenous babies,...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method which determines not only whether a chemical or substance is...

Copenhagen, Denmark: Raising the age limit for routine genetic testing in colorectal cancer could identify more cases of families affected...

In adult mammal hearts, cardiomyoctyes do not proliferate following damage, like that caused by myocardial infarction. However, the inability to...

Failing an exam at school, getting rejected for a job or being screamed at by your teacher or superior are...

Individual neurons can learn not only single responses to a particular signal, but also a series of reactions at precisely...

- New York, NY (May 29, 2017) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published...

Credit: University of Tsukuba Narcolepsy, a serious sleep disorder in which patients often fall asleep uncontrollably, has been incurable because...

Credit: Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School. (BOSTON) - The microbiome, or the collections of microorganisms present in the body,...

Credit: United European Gastroenterology A new study highlights that children suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are not meeting the...

Overheated cities face climate change costs at least twice as big as the rest of the world because of the...

Credit: Riikka Linnakoski New research on projected climate changes from the University of Helsinki indicates that climate change has an...

HAMILTON, ON, May 29, 2017 - The visual cortex, the human brain's vision-processing centre that was previously thought to mature...

Credit: ETH Zurich / Scott Jackson, Ioannis Manolaridis, Kaspar Locher Almost all living creatures have evolved mechanisms to remove toxins...

A study of post-mortem brain tissue reveals the human primary visual cortex (V1) develops gradually throughout life. The research, published...

Credit: SFU A new study by Simon Fraser University biologists Dan Greenberg and Arne Mooers offers clues to why more...

Exposure to high-fat diet from childhood may increase the sensitivity of the dopamine system later in adulthood, according to a...