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Credit: Rebholz Highlight In a study of African-American men and women with normal kidney function, a pattern of higher collective consumption of soda, sweetened fruit...

Study confirms one hour ruleCredit: Douglas Levere/University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Naloxone has saved thousands of lives. But can patients be safely discharged from...

Medical University of South Carolina researchers tie higher levels of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) to estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer; their findings also suggest...

Until now, studies on the APOL1 gene have primarily focused on African and African American populationsCredit: New York, NY (December 27, 2018) -- In the...

Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - If quitting smoking is one of your New Year's resolutions, you might want to consider cutting back on...

Credit: S. Rupp, 2018 (CC BY 4.0) Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and diseases often spillover to humans...

Credit: Lucia Romani, 2018, CC BY 4.0 For years, the diagnosis of scabies has relied on time-consuming and intrusive full-body examinations. Now, researchers reporting in...

Parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes synthesize sugars using an unexpected metabolic pathway called gluconeogenesis, according to a study published December 27 in the open-access journal PLOS...

Credit: G Quinn, Swansea University Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain...

Credit: Amy Porter, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International The critically endangered Grauer's gorilla has recently lost genetic diversity and has experienced an increase in harmful...

Credit: Bruce Palmer/FSU Photography Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A team of Florida State University researchers has unlocked a decades-old mystery about how a critical cellular...

Credit: Wedell-Neergaard, Lehrskov, and Christensen, et al. / Cell Metabolism Some of you may have made a New Year's resolution to hit the gym to...

NIH-funded team shows that introducing genetic diversity improves translatability Incorporating genetic diversity into a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease resulted in greater overlap with the...

Cancers related to body weight twice as predominant in women than in men A new study looking at the share of cancers related to obesity...

We know a good meal can stimulate the release of the feel-good hormone dopamine, and now a study in humans from the Max Planck Institute...