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Credit: J. Quílez Cinca/Unizar Researchers from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) have analysed drinking water and detected oocysts of Cryptosporidium and cysts of Giardia, two...

Using these proteins, originally found in jellyfish to make them glow, the team where able to focus laser beams on the brightly lit proteins and...

Credit: L+L Hundreds of United States cities will be able to identify their most pressing health needs more accurately--thanks to a nationwide expansion of the...

Credit: Dr. Kazuaki Monde Throughout our evolution, viruses have continually infected humans just as they do today. Some early viruses became integrated into our genome...

New York, NY (June 27, 2017)--Preschoolers from low-income families living in cities that took part in a two-year community-wide intervention to foster healthy eating and...

Stem cells are considered biological allrounders because they have the potential to develop into the various body cell types. For the majority of stem cells,...

Credit: Image by Dr. LI Yefei Synapses are fundamental building blocks of neural circuits. Synapse formation requires complex regulation involving cell adhesion molecules, secreted molecules,...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Israel is subjected to sand and dust storms from several directions: northeast from the Sahara, northwest from Saudi Arabia and...

(PeerJ) In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, ornithologist Dr. Miguel A. Gómez Garza came across parrots...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON ? Two challenges in treating patients with estrogen-positive breast cancer (ER+) have been an inability to predict who will...

In an editorial to be published on Tuesday 27th June 2017 in the journal ecancermedicalscience, Anthony Hatswell of BresMed (an independent health economics consultancy) and...

OAK BROOK, Ill. - Minute traces of gadolinium, the contrast agent used to enhance MR images, are often retained in the brain tissue of patients...

BOSTON - A comprehensive program to reduce or prevent childhood obesity in low-income communities led to significant improvements in obesity-related measures among children cared for...

People with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) often show a reduced sensitivity to contextual information in perceptual tasks, but new research suggests that this reduced sensitivity...

Boston, MA - A large-scale effort to reduce childhood obesity in two low-income Massachusetts communities resulted in some modest improvements among schoolchildren over a relatively...