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Credit: Andrew Hill Scientists have completed a major effort to map the regulatory landscape of the mouse genome at a single-cell resolution. The team applied...

August 2, 2018 - A long-term follow-up study from Australia confirms that hip implants with components made of cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) substantially lower the risk...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA--A new study using machine learning has identified brain-based dimensions of mental health disorders, an advance towards much-needed biomarkers to more accurately...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 2, 2018--Metabolomics is the latest omics systems science technology with emerging applications towards psychiatry, personalized...

(Boston)--The world's rising obesity epidemic is associated with a broad spectrum of ailments including atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) disease. Each condition can progress...

Alzheimer's disease is an increasingly prevalent, neurodegenerative condition that erodes memory and other cognitive functions. Treatments for this complex disease have been elusive, although res..

A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has used epigenome editing tools to investigate how the genetic abnormality that drives Ewing sarcoma - the second...

August 2, 2018 - Pain is a frequent problem for children with complex medical conditions -but many of them are unable to communicate their pain...

Routine screening and genetic testing of the relatives of patients suffering from aortic diseases could save lives, new research has shown. A research team led...

Credit: Karina F. Bombonato-Prado (FORP-USP) A group of researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil used a DNA editing tool called CRISPR/Cas9...

Credit: MIke Polito, LSU BATON ROUGE - Mangroves are tropical forests that thrive in salt water and are found in a variety of coastal settings...

Credit: University of Chichester Research explores prospective memory which reminds you to take action in the future Poor prospective memory can be an early indicator...

Credit: Paolo Tonato About 200,000 working days are lost in Germany every year due to insufficient sleep, with an economic loss of $60bln, or about...

In the current issue of Nature, the economists Peter Cramton, Axel Ockenfels (both University of Cologne) and R. Richard Geddes (Cornell University) outline a concept...

Credit: National University of Singapore A research team led by scientists from the Cancer Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore...