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Credit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster It is often difficult for a driver to see a person walking on the side of...

Unravelling how instructions for new life are readCredit: Dr Melanie Eckersley-Maslin, Babraham Institute Key points: Researchers identify factors responsible for activating the zygotic genome A...

Physically active men who are not overweight but who have a relatively high waist-stature ratio are more likely to develop heart disorders, according to a...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine One of the main obstacles to successfully treating breast cancer is the cells' ability to change in ways that make...

Drug approved for lymphoma and multiple myeloma may reduce fibrosis and immunosuppression A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has found that the overgrowth of...

Largest phages ever found in humans target bacteria associated with hunter-gatherer diets Viruses plague bacteria just as viruses like influenza plague humans. Some of the...

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $12 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to continue its role as the Chicago...

When women medical school faculty make a few percent less per year than men, that means many tens of thousands of dollars less in lifetime...

Credit: Stand Up To Cancer SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Jan. 28, 2019 - Stand Up To Cancer announced here today the creation of an $8...

Researchers identify faulty 'brake' that interferes with heart muscle's ability to contract and relax Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic disease of the...

Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that a protein called midkine, a member of the class of signaling molecules known as cytokines, is...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A fusion gene is a new gene made by joining parts of two different genes. The current thought is that...

That cute lemur selfie you shared may be fueling the illegal pet trade in MadagascarCredit: Photo courtesy of Pet Lemur Survey DURHAM, N.C. -- Cats...

NIH-funded study links brain activity related to associative learning with PTSD symptom severity A study has shed light on the neurocomputational contributions to the development...

Rohan Fernandes, PhD, is leading a team in investigating the efficacy of a nanoimmunotherapy ensemble in treating cancer WASHINGTON (Jan. 28, 2018) -- A team...