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Credit: Soon-Ki Han/ Xingyun Qi Plants know how to do a neat trick. Through photosynthesis, they use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food, belching...

LOS ANGELES (May 07, 2018) -- Cedars-Sinai investigators, led by Waguih William IsHak, MD,FAPA, professor of Psychiatry and vice chairman for Education and Research, have...

Credit: Georgia Tech / Wu / Xiao & NYPL Digital Commons / Brumfield Cancer drops sparse chemical hints of its presence early on, but unfortunately,...

While on-the-job fatalities due to injuries and accidents have steadily decreased in nearly every industry in the U.S., the burden of debilitating lung disease in...

Credit: Nick Keiser/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 7, 2018) - "Patient zero" isn't entirely to blame when an infection takes root in a population. According...

Credit: Kirsty Challen, B.Sc., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom. DES PLAINES, IL -- Asking emergency department (ED) providers to self-identify their opioid...

Credit: Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University It's a neuroscientist's dream: being able to track the millions of interactions among brain cells...

Credit: Kris Kehe/UH College of Pharmacy UH professor of pharmacology Tahir Hussain has received $1.6M from the National Institutes of Health to examine a kidney...

Credit: Credit: Nan Zhang BUFFALO, N.Y. -- What if you could test for cocaine, opioids and marijuana as quickly as a breathalyzer identifies alcohol? A...

Credit: Image courtesy of Stephen Back, M.D., Ph.D., Oregon Health & Science University. A new study identifies a molecule that may be critical to the...

BOSTON (May 7, 2018) - Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center today announced that the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences...

Credit: Courtesy HemoShear Therapeutics A scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, working with local biotech company HemoShear Therapeutics, has created a three-dimensional...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, May 7 -- A review of nearly 500 cases of infants with severe congenital hyperinsulinism who underwent partial or...

Credit: Bastian Braeuning / TUM Pore-forming toxins are common bacterial poisons. They attack organisms by introducing holes in cell membranes. A team of scientists at...

An increasing number of women are treated with antipsychotic drugs during pregnancy even though safety questions remain unanswered. Certain antipsychotic drugs used to treat bipolar...