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Fever during pregnancy may raise the risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the child, according to a study led by scientists at the Center...

Credit: Shira Lottem/ Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown From birds to mammals, from fish to reptiles, the immediate reaction to an impending threat to the...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (June 13, 2017 - 12:01 am ET) - If you have gone through life avoiding certain antibiotics because you think you're allergic...

Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A sequential multiple assignment randomized (SMART) trial allows researchers to test two hypotheses at once. The new trial...

Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific Philadelphia, PA, June 13, 2017 - The emergence of new pathogens like West Nile Virus, Ebola, Dengue, and Zika, threaten human...

A Dartmouth study finds that "Big Food" companies are striving to make food more sustainable from farm to factory but have less power than you...

Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga (UNC Health Care) Scientists have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes DNA damage, which leads to lung cancer. Now, for the...

GALVESTON, Texas - Researchers have found a way to increase the effectiveness of a widely used cancer drug while decreasing the risk of heart-damaging side...

DENVER, Colo. - Malignant neuroendocrine tumors, commonly called NETs, are easy to miss and associated with discouraging survival rates and poor quality of life. A...

Credit: Michela Del Prete and colleagues, CHU de Québec - Université Laval Denver, Colo. - Neuroendocrine cancer is exceedingly difficult to manage and unlikely to...

A team of researchers has pinpointed a sugar modification in cells that spurs the spread of skin cancer. Its findings, which appear in the latest...

Two different types of cancer can develop in the liver. The more common malignant tumors are hepatocellular carcinomas, which arise from liver cells. Less common...

Tumor suppressor genes protect cells from malignant transformation. If they are turned off as a result of chemical modifications in DNA, called epigenetic labels, this...

Credit: University of Birmingham Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that a type of protein could hold the secret to suppressing the growth...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 12, 2017--New research shows that the agents commonly mixed with cannabis oil for vaping can...