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The almost 5 million people who paid to get their DNA analyzed by the company 23andMe recently found out that their genetic data and related...

Credit: Doron Merkler / UNIGE Rasmussen's encephalitis is a rare autoimmune disease that primarily affects children and can lead to seizures. As the disease is...

A substantial proportion of pharmaceutical industry payments to authors of oncology clinical trials published in major scientific journals are not disclosed, new research shows. The...

Credit: Dmytro Puchkov, FMP Synapses are the interfaces for information exchange between neurons. Teams of scientists working with Professor Dr. Volker Haucke, Director at the...

ROCHESTER, Minn. - Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified an important new pathway by which HER2 positive breast cancers grow and have discovered that a...

Credit: New York Genome Center/Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NEW YORK, NY (August 30, 2018) -- Neville Sanjana, PhD, Core Faculty Member at the New...

Credit: © TARGID - KU Leuven Macrophages are specialised immune cells that destroy bacteria and other harmful organisms. KU Leuven scientists, Belgium, have come to...

Credit: Wits University Patients with haemophilia bleed spontaneously or following trauma. The most common sites of bleeding are into joints, but bleeds can also happen...

(Toronto - August 30, 2018) - The role of insulin as a boost to the immune system to improve its ability to fight infection has...

Commercial antidepressants typically take two to four weeks to have a significant effect on a depressed patient. They are also inneffective in approximately 40% of...

The article of Matua et al, published recently in Current Drug Abuse Reviews, focuses on an issue of major interest to public health sector and...

New research reveals that people with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have a higher risk of developing gout, even beyond the first years after being diagnosed...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The stigma associated with the autoimmune disease psoriasis may lead people to avoid patients who show signs of the condition,...

Credit: Sofroniew lab For many years, researchers have thought that the scar that forms after a spinal cord injury actively prevents damaged neurons from regrowing....

Credit: Neville Wootton Heteractis magnifica sea anemones contain neuroprotective peptides that slow down the inflammation process and the deterioration of neurons causing the development of...