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Scientists are studying the role of immune cell activation in Alzheimer's disease Mutations of the TREM2 gene can significantly increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease....

A team led by Prof. Gaiti Hasan of NCBS, and her collaborators describe how groups of different neurons connect up to make insect flight possible...

Credit: Isabel Jones Mega-dams should not be built in lowland tropical forest regions due to the threat they pose to biodiversity and ecosystems, according to...

Initial results have raised hopes of a method that can alleviate the symptom of flashbacks without therapists -- because there are far too few therapistsCredit:...

A tweak to our flu vaccine resupply logistics could save thousands of livesCredit: National Archives (US) More than 50 million people died in the Spanish...

2019 Hooke MedalCredit: University of Bristol An academic from the University of Bristol's School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine has been honoured with a prestigious...

New register for animal experiments launched by the German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals "With this register, we are improving the transparency and...

Credit: A. Moosmann/Helmholtz Centre Munich Cytomegalovirus is widespread and remains in the body for a lifetime after infection. In healthy individuals, this virus is usually...

San Francisco, January 8, 2019 - A pilot program to reduce lead poisoning in Nigerian gold mining communities has brought extraordinary improvements to an area...

Newly developed medicine could be used to treat hundreds of thousands of patients with tuberculosisCredit: Maxwell Photography Tuesday, 8 January 2019: Led by researchers at...

Undifferentiated uterine sarcoma is a very rare but extremely aggressive cancer type. It can be divided into four groups with different characteristics of clinical importance...

Washington, DC - January 8, 2019 - Clostridium difficile causes the most common and most dangerous hospital-born infections in the United States and around the...

Mice with AD-like symptoms receiving supplemental levels of choline in the womb improved their spatial memory. A second generation bred from these choline-treated mice also...

Credit: Nigel Larkin, taken at Royal Veterinary College, London A nearly metre-long skull of a giant fossil marine ichthyosaur found in a farmer's field more...

Kaiser Permanente study supports routine vaccination of patients during hospital stays Hospitalized patients who received the flu vaccine had no increased risk of outpatient visits...