Credit: (Photo: TUM/J. Geist) The silting of rivers and streams leads to problems for fish, mussels, and other aquatic organisms ...

Some 10 million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's disease -- a debilitating condition that causes degeneration of brain nerve cells ...

As part of a major, multi-institutional, multidisciplinary assault against myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a highly debilitating and poorly understood ...

Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) The fauna of deep seabed tends to be relatively unknown due to the difficulty of ...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 27, 2017-Pharmaceutical companies developing Orphan Drugs are increasingly partnering with ...

Moms may be notorious worriers, but babies of anxious mothers may also spend more time focusing on threats in their ...

Key takeaways: Extracellular vesicle ARMMs carry receptors that allow signaling without direct contact between cells. Researchers hope to engineer ARMMs ...

Credit: M. Lynch Vocal communication is central to the lives of many birds, which use sound to attract mates and ...

Credit: J. Livaudais Populations of many North American songbirds are declining, and in many cases we don't understand why--for example, ...

Credit: Velizar Simeonovski, The Field Museum Remember the movie The Princess Bride, when the characters debate the existence of R.O.U.S.es ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - MGMT promoter methylation status -- information gathered at a DNA-level -- can help predict overall survival for ...

Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox, National Cancer Institute TUCSON, Ariz. - A study by scientists at the University of Arizona and ...

Credit: Fumiko Chino, M.D. SAN DIEGO, September 26, 2017 - A new study finds that Medicaid expansion enacted as part ...

Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- States that fully expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act cut their ...

MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine physicians have proposed a simple new system to improve the reporting of robotic surgeries performed ...

The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF) and PLOS ONE are collaborating on a new funding program in the area of neurofibromatosis ...

Credit: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Society of Surgical Oncology, National Institutes of Health, A Sister's Hope Foundation, Saslow ...

New York, NY (September 22, 2017) - Oxford University Press (OUP) is partnering with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) ...

(Boston)--Julie Palmer, ScD, associate director of Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center, professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public ...

Credit: University of Huddersfield CANCER is on the rise and the need to be empathetic when giving a patient their ...