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Scientists at the University of Bristol are engineering human skin on artificial robotic muscles that can stretch and bend the tissue just like in the...

Bethesda, Md. (May 3, 2018)--Sympathetic nerve activity to skeletal muscle blood vessels--a function of the nervous system that helps regulate blood pressure--increases during physiological and...

Inflammation, and in particular chronic inflammation, are major contributors to a large number of diseases, such as cancer, acute pancreatic inflammation, fatty liver disease, diabetes,...

Credit: James Sahn/University of Texas at Austin Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have successfully tested in animals a drug that, they say,...

URBANA, Ill. - Diets rich in nuts, such as walnuts, have been shown to play a role in heart health and in reducing colorectal cancer....

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A novel marmoset model of human Zika virus infection offers new opportunities for better understanding of how the virus causes...

Credit: UTA Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have developed a highly elastic biodegradable hydrogel for bio-printing of materials that mimic natural human...

Credit: PLOS ONE MADISON - New research out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has, for the first time, detected prions responsible for chronic wasting disease...

Inflammation, and in particular chronic inflammation, are major contributors to a large number of diseases, such as cancer, acute pancreatic inflammation, fatty liver disease, diabetes,...

TAMPA, Fla. - May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. More than 5 million people in the United States are diagnosed with the disease each year,...

Credit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have discovered a way turn pluripotent stem cells into atrial cells, which make up the upper...

LA JOLLA, CA-- May 3, 2018 --You could say Hollis Cline's lab at The Scripps Research Institute is building better tadpoles. To better understand how...

PHILADELPHIA - After eight years of failed treatment for persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), Janet Szilagyi, 78 of Clayton, New Jersey, became the first patient in...

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Researchers have exploited a quirk in the genetic make-up of the deadly malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, to create 38,000 mutant strains and...

Credit: Baylor University WACO, Texas (May 3, 2018) - Using an innovative initiative, Latin American researchers from academia, government agencies and businesses leaders identified priority...