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Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is the leading cause of viral encephalitis (infection of the brain) in Asia. There is no specific treatment for Japanese encephalitis...

Credit: ATS Jan. 13, 2017 — Replacing biomass and kerosene cookstoves used throughout the developing world with clean-burning ethanol stoves may reduce hypertension and cardiovascular...

IMAGE: An electron microscope image of bioactive glass. Credit: Image courtesy of Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – A few years from now millions of...

Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, January 10, 2018 – Alcohol consumption has been identified as a modifiable risk factor for cancers such as...

Credit: University of Pennsylvania A new study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers has found that the oral microbiome is affected by diabetes, causing a...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Young adult women who watched "Fifty Shades of Grey" found the relationship between the characters Christian and Anastasia somewhat exciting and...

Credit: Credit: Courtesy of Cell Press, Neuron April 5, 2017 Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, MASS. – With a recent two-year, $833,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, kinesiology professor Richard van Emmerik and colleagues...

Credit: Children's National Health System SAN FRANCISCO – The patient-centered study's premise was straightforward: Since there is a definite link between parents' psychosocial stress ..

Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden are first to discover that bacteria can multiply disease-inducing genes which are needed to rapidly cause infection. The results...

Professor Hideki Takagi, at the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Tsukuba and his colleagues, through joint research with Descente Ltd.,...

Credit: Osaka University Scientists at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC) at Osaka University, Japan have pinpointed a specific molecular events that could explain allergic...

Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates half of the adult population in the United States may...

A University of California, Davis, microbiologist who studies how a parasitic amoeba kills cells has been named as a 2016 Pew scholar in the biomedical...

Credit: Hiroshi Yokota Much like gym enthusiasts, every year Asiatic black bears seem to be on the lookout for protein-rich food ahead of the summer,...