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Influenza A viruses are responsible for seasonal disease outbreaks in humans. Influenza A also circulates among bird and some mammal...

WASHINGTON (July 7, 2016) — Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) created a conceptual model for episodes of acute,...

Group A streptococcus (GAS) can cause a life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis, which spreads rapidly and destroys soft tissue. Treatment of these...

A cancer research consortium headed by investigators at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and two other institutions, today received $12 million...

Credit: Photo by Rebekah Mosci, a co-author of the study. EAST LANSING, Mich. — A collaborative Michigan State University study...

Malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases: it infects hundreds of millions of people every year, and kills about...

(Boston)– Why do African-American women die at a higher rate and experience more aggressive breast tumors than white women? Researchers...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) announces a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for...

Approximately 95 percent of cancer mortality is caused by metastasis. This fact is what motivates many cancer researchers to focus...

Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the effects of electric fields...

Baltimore, MD– As we age, the function and regenerative abilities of skeletal muscles deteriorate, which means it is difficult for...

In recent years pasta gained a bad reputation: it will fatten you. This led lots of people to limit its...

Recognizing the early stages of esophageal cancer is difficult because it can easily be missed. TU Eindhoven has therefore been...

“This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal...

Cells contain thousands of messenger RNA molecules, which carry copies of DNA’s genetic instructions to the rest of the cell....

Rats given midazolam, an anti-anxiety medication, were less likely to free trapped companions because the drug lessened their empathy, according...

A Japanese research team have applied a method used in human genetic analysis to rice and rapidly discovered four new...

HOUSTON – (June 23, 2016) – A team led by Rice University scientists has improved the production of a potent...

Kwanghun (KC) Chung, investigator of neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, core faculty of the Institute for...

Driverless cars pose a quandary when it comes to safety. These autonomous vehicles are programmed with a set of safety...