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Credit: Michaela Hofmann One can seldom spot a cuckoo bee, whose peculiar kleptoparasitic behaviour includes laying eggs in the nests of a certain host bee...

Credit: National University of Singapore Food scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have given okara - the residue from the production of soy...

The master regulators of gut stem cells, called intestinal myofibroblasts, have pumps that protect them, and thus the gut, from the toxic effects of a...

Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Over the long-run, the race will indeed go to the slower, steadier animal. "The fable of 'The Tortoise and...

Credit: Emergency Nurses Association A new practice improvement initiative and study indicates active shooter training and simulations are vital to ensuring staff is equipped to...

Credit: Binghamton University, State University at New York BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Women may need a more nutrient-rich diet to support a positive emotional well-being, according...

Credit: UBC Okanagan Researchers at UBC's Okanagan campus have developed a new and improved method to judge the effectiveness of experimental therapies for neurodegeneration--the progressive...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--August 27, 2018--Everything the body does--your brain thinking, your heart beating, your cells growing--requires energy. Consequently, it comes as no surprise that disruptions...

Credit: Kessler Foundation Anthony Lequerica, PhD, is the recipient of the 2018 Dr. Joshua B. Cantor Scholar Award. The award was established in honor of...

August 28, 2018 - TB Alliance has initiated a pivotal clinical trial, SimpliciTB (pronounced: sim-plis-i-tee-bee), that will evaluate whether a new four-drug regimen can treat...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University researchers, in a collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine and Houston nonprofit Technology For All (TFA), are developing a...

URBANA, Ill. - A wide array of negative health outcomes have been associated with food insecurity including diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease. But could food...

WASHINGTON (August 27, 2018) -- Drugs most commonly prescribed to patients seen by primary care physicians are not often tested in the patients who go...

Credit: Laboratory of Andrew South, Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) (PHILADELPHIA) - Patients with a rare skin disease, commonly called Butterfly Syndrome, that...

Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called onchocerciasis, a tropical disease that...