BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Human immunodeficiency virus is known to be a highly variable virus that adapts to a person’s immune ...

Nematode worms may not be from Mars or Venus, but they do have sex-specific circuits in their brains that cause ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. – A rare, severe form of pulmonary hypertension, which up until now, has only been classified as ...

A mutation that affects the proteins that package DNA–without changing the DNA itself–can cause a rare form of cancer, according ...

A team of MIT and Harvard University students who invented a smartphone-connected sensor that detects lung cancer from a single ...

Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of ...

A team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reported a research trifecta. They discovered a ...

MADISON, Wis. — A single defect in a gene that codes for a histone — a “spool” that wraps idle ...

Since 2013, the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus has spread rapidly through South America and the Caribbean, and is now threatening Southern ...

A class of drug that inhibits estrogen production and is used to treat breast cancer has been found to quickly ...

Credit: Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University Crowdsourcing has brought us Wikipedia and ways to understand how HIV proteins fold. It ...

A new UBC-developed method to isolate cancer cells that have escaped from a tumour could soon pave the way for ...

Signaling a potential new approach to treating diabetes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard ...

When electrical waves in the heart run amok in a condition called arrhythmia, sudden death can occur. To save the ...

Credit: Alexander N. Patananan To study certain aspects of cells, researchers need the ability to take the innards out, manipulate ...

Antibiotics have proven to be a double-edged sword: capable of killing a range of bacteria that cause infections, but also ...

Credit: Sato and Woolley Researchers from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, have discovered a new factor in the escalation of seizures: ...

In Alzheimer’s disease, plaques of amyloid beta protein accumulate in the brain, damaging connections between neurons. Now, researchers at University ...

The conventional wisdom about cancer cells is that they are masters of camouflage, invisible to the immune system. However, occasionally, ...

ARLINGTON, Va.–Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) Gen. Robert B. Neller recently visited the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to ...