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A new study showing how interventions by community pharmacists can help asthma patients achieve better asthma control could have major cost benefits for health services...

A computer's ability to predict a patient's lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs is a step closer to becoming a reality, thanks...

(University of Edinburgh) Imaging tools to identify abnormalities that cause heart attacks are to be developed in a £1.8m research initiative.

If these alkaloids are not properly removed in a so-called "debittering process", they can trigger poisoning in humans which affects the nervous, circulatory and digestive...

Credit: Tomoko Nishiyama Nagoya, Japan - A sister chromatid is one half of an identical pair of chromatids formed by the replication of a single...

The cultural differences between the United States and Norway are relatively small, but the cultures differ significantly from one another in a few very relevant...

Credit: Manuel Becerra Surprisingly, there are still plant species waiting to be discovered in the Iberian Peninsula. Some are detected thanks to the latest study...

Credit: Hannes Lohi research group Researchers at the University of Helsinki have identified a novel gene defect that causes a hereditary blistering disorder of the...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Stress affects the body and can trigger illness -- from psychiatric disorders to heart disease. Humans are exposed to stress...

Researchers from Belgium led by Prof. Dirk Elewaut of the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research and the team of Prof. Vanderkerken and Prof. Menu at...

Credit: Image: Daumke lab, MDC Oliver Daumke's lab figures out how the inner membranes of mitochondria "get their groove" and assume the complex shapes they...

Credit: (c) ITMO University Russian physicists from ITMO University have found out that spherical silicon nanoparticles can be effectively heated up, and simultaneously emit light...

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced financial support for the Human Cell Atlas, which is using sequencing technology to redefine every cell in the...

Loading video... Credit: Credit University of British Columbia. Zoologists have documented the first record of a House Swift in the Americas--and begun to unravel the...

Bicycle use has skyrocketed in popularity, but it's also led to more accidents, with medical costs from non-fatal bike crashes climbing steadily by $789 million...