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Staphylococcus aureus bacteria Credits: Imperial College London Scientists have discovered a new way to attack Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. The team, from Imperial College London, have...

Nanduri Prabhakar, PhD, director of the Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology of Oxygen Sensing at the University of Chicago Obstructive sleep...

Credits: yourgenome.org There is new hope in the fight against Huntington’s disease. Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered that changing a specific part of the...

Partners of people with depression are more likely to suffer from chronic pain, research has found. The study shows that the two conditions share common...

Once again, several of the world’s most esteemed neuroscience researchers will gather in Palm Beach County to speak at the Max Planck Florida Institute for...

On August 7, 2016, the New York Times Magazine published “The Brain That Couldn’t Remember,” an article adapted from the forthcoming book “Patient H.M.: A...

About 7 percent of all Danish children are born prematurely. This is of significant im-portance not only to the child’s development, but it also affects...

In the journal, Nature Communications, a team of Danish researchers reports that they have developed a new class of artificial proteins. In the long term,...

Intermittent parathyroid hormone treatment (iPTH) and mechanical loading through exercise have both been shown to stimulate bone formation. These osteoanabolic stimuli are partially mediated by...

Researchers at VIB-KU Leuven have managed to get a clearer view on the roots of dystonia, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary twisting movements. Led...

New, highly curative hepatitis C therapy is both safe and effective as a treatment option for people who inject drugs receiving opioid substitution therapy according...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A genetic mutation may have helped modern humans adapt to smoke exposure from fires and perhaps sparked an evolutionary advantage over...

Credit: Courtesy of Yu Liu HOUSTON, Aug. 8, 2016 – Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the U.S. With one in every...

Biomedical scientists have revealed the inner workings of a group of proteins that help to switch critical genes on and off during blood-cell production, in...

Photo Credit: Elisabeth Fall SAN FRANCISCO, CA–With a trick of engineering, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes improved a potential weapon against inflammation and autoimmune disorders....