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Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A team of University of Illinois bioengineers has taken a new look at an old tool...

PHILADELPHIA–Physicians and others now recognize that seemingly mild, concussion-type head injuries lead to long-term cognitive impairments surprisingly often. A brain protein called SNTF, which rises..

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 28, 2017 — We have a lot of confidence that we measure temperature accurately. But how do thermometers...

Credit: Joseph A. Toonen Girls with a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in a gene known as Nf1 are much more likely to lose...

Credit: Figure: Carolin Heck/KIT Many fungi damage or even kill plants. But there are also plant-friendly fungi: Most land plants live in close community with...

Credit: Pavel Krasnov A group of scientists from the Siberian Federal University (SFU, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and the Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (NIIC, Novosibirsk, Russia)...

Babies with a high body mass index (BMI) at age two months are at risk for obesity at age two years, say pediatric researchers. The...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, N.Y., July 26, 2017–A new study assessed the safety, tolerability, and effectiveness of extended-release guanfacine in children...

Credit: Vania Olmos Lau International trade of wildlife on the Internet is highly unregulated and has become a threat for species survival. Threatened cacti are...

Credit: Dezs? Módos Cancer is caused by an accumulation of genetic changes in a cell, that overcome the normal checks and balances leading to uncontrolled...

Credit: Melody Ko for Tufts University Second-grade students who read aloud to dogs in an afterschool program demonstrated improved attitudes about reading, according to researchers...

Credit: University of Basel, Peter Schnetz Professor Michael N. Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel receives the Lasker Basic Medical Research Award...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Research led by Ludwine Messiaen, Ph.D., professor of genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, shows that missense mutations...

Credit: Mayo Clinic Proceedings Rochester, MN, October 5, 2017 – Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is fatal for over 90% of patients, and more than half...

Credit: Illustration by Julia Kuhl The part of the brain that creates mental maps of one's environment plays a much broader role in memory and...