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Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute La Jolla, Calif., Dec. 1, 2017 – Maximiliano D'Angelo, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical...

Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. – Washing with soap and water is second nature for many. But in many other places around the world,...

IMAGE: Arrows indicate that more CD59 is drawn into the cell in people with sleep apnea who are not taking statins (left); whereas more CD59...

Dr. Nancy Sweitzer: “I think it’s a great Arizona story that we had this confluence of expertise across very different and complementary disciplines. Nobody else...

Credit: Dana-Farber/Boston Children's BOSTON (January 19, 2017) — Precision medicine – in which diagnosis and treatments are keyed to the genetic susceptibilities of individual cancers...

Credit: Katy Robertson Since the early 1900s, veterinarians have observed intervertebral disc disease — a common cause of back pain, rear limb paralysis and inability...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 21, 2017–Researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of a minimally invasive method to form a regenerative...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 28, 2017 — Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., and many more at hundreds of...

Loss of megaherbivores such as elephants and hippos can allow woody plants and non-grassy herbs and flowering plants to encroach on grasslands in African national...

Credit: NIAID LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Dec. 19, 2016 — The virulent pathogen that causes the disease tularemia, or "rabbit fever," was weaponized during past world...

Credit: Stand Up To Cancer Santa Monica, CA (January 30, 2018) — Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) announces today a "Convergence 2.0" research initiative that...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA–(June 6, 2017) Neurons have long enjoyed the spotlight in neuroscience–and for good reason: they are incredibly important cellular actors. But,...

Credit: University of Pennslyvania Infections caused by viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, measles, parainfluenza and Ebola, are typically considered acute. These viruses...

Credit: PS Rao. Domesticating plants to grow as crops can turn out to be a double-edged scythe. On one hand, selecting specific desirable traits, such...

Credit: Bryce Richter/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. — In our guts, and in the guts of all animals, resides a robust ecosystem of microbes known as the...