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(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- A common drug for treating epileptic seizures can lead to birth defects if used during pregnancy by interfering with glutamate signaling in...

Scientists have found immune cells can fight different strains of the same virus - a discovery which could help transform vaccine development. Vaccines become ineffective...

Scientists at Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have identified a gene called FoxM1 as a...

WASHINGTON, DC (April 30, 2018) -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $10 million to fund two new comparative clinical...

To satisfy the protein demands of an anticipated nearly 10 billion people by 2050, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and researchers around...

WASHINGTON, DC (April 30, 2018) -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $74 million to fund nine new comparative clinical...

Lifetime risk is a useful method to quantify risk of atrial fibrillation over a person's lifetime. However, data are scarce with respect to the lifetime...

Credit: UTA UTA biology doctoral student Marquerite Herzog has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study the molecular genetic basis...

The 'deep learning' computers in Anant Madabhushi's diagnostic imaging lab at Case Western Reserve University routinely defeat their human counterparts in diagnosing heart failure, dete..

Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - In the world of chemistry, good things can happen if you just add sugar. A wide range of...

Credit: Yuste Lab/Columbia University Much of what biologists have learned about animal behavior over the years has come from careful observation and painstaking notes. There...

Credit: National Jewish Health Eczema is the most common skin disease worldwide. People suffering from it often deal with a lifetime of painful symptoms. A...

Credit: Public domain A UMD researcher has uncovered new mechanisms that dictate the development of germline stem cells or germ cells, the only cell type...

Credit: Lancaster University Taking a photo each day and posting it online has complex benefits say researchers who say it supports improved wellbeing. This is...

Credit: Yuksel Agca, MU College of Veterinary Medicine publishing in PLOS ONE Alzheimer's disease currently affects more than 5.5 million Americans and is one of...