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There is substantial waste in U.S. healthcare, but little consensus on how to identify or combat it. New research from the University of Chicago Booth...

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have made a surprising discovery: during fetal development, a particular immune cell seems to play...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(September 11, 2018) Cancer cells often have mutations in their DNA that can give scientists clues about how the cancer started...

Credit: deradrian via Flickr Creative Commons The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to 18 cross-disciplinary projects to conduct innovative research on neural and...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 11, 2018--A 10-year investigation evaluating data from four surveillance systems captured information on the geographic...

Credit: University of Houston A treatment for highly aggressive and commonly fatal pancreatic cancer is being developed, reports a University of Houston researcher who has...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Current WSU research shows stimuli-responsive nanoparticles can specifically target infections to simultaneously prevent the spread of bacteria and reduce the inflammation it...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, September 11, 2018-A novel high throughput screening (HTS) assay compatible with an ion channel biosensor component was...

Credit: Courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Sometimes kids trip and fall, and their teeth take the hit. Nearly half of children suffer some injury to...

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who feel more stress also have more cancer cells in their blood and elevated levels of three other markers...

Credit: Image created by Scixel (http://scixel.es/), under the instructions of D. Luque and P. J. de Pablo. Researchers have provided new insight on the mechanics...

Giving up a kidney to a stranger requires a certain sense of selflessness, what's come to be known in social science as extraordinary altruism. University...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Differences in the DNA within the mitochondria, the energy-producing structures within cells, can determine the severity and progression of heart...

Credit: Kris Hanning, UAHS BioCommunications Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the United States, striking 1 out of 8 women. About...

Mononuclear phagocytes can both promote and inhibit inflammation. A Team from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich has now shown that individual phagocytes in the central nervous...