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New Haven, Conn. — Yale scientists have solved a puzzle of the immune system — how antibodies enter the nervous system to control viral infections....

Credit: Children's National Health System The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.75 million to a research lab led by Zhe Han, Ph.D., principal investigator...

People could soon be using their smartphones to combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a potentially life-saving breakthrough by RMIT University researchers...

Credit: © Carla Schaffer / AAAS Dendritic cells represent an important component of the immune system: they recognize and engulf invaders, which subsequently triggers a...

Credit: Dorota Kidawa Stress is a factor not only in the best human families; it also appears among animals. To see how bird family members...

Credit: CHEST GLENVIEW, IL, September 27, 2017 – Increased arterial stiffness is a known predictor of cardiovascular diseases in different populations, including healthy subjects and...

Credit: NIAID The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced approximately $9 million in...

Washington, DC – (July 26, 2016) – Federal health officials continue to investigate the first possible cases of domestic Zika virus transmission in Florida. In...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Right now, in any American hospital, about half of the patients have a prescription for an acid-reducing drug to reduce heartburn...

Credit: Siân Owen and Rocío Canals Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Public Health England have used Salmonella genome data from a UK public...

Credit: FDA Sudden cardiac death resulting from fibrillation – erratic heartbeat due to electrical instability – is one of the leading causes of death in...

Certain characteristics may increase patients’ risk for needing emergency care Highlights • Risk factors for emergency department visits included younger age, females, black and Hispanic...

Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research In an important step towards eradicating HIV-associated viral reservoirs, researchers at Sydney's Westmead Institute for Medical Research have ide..

Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional crystal, which was obtained experimentally and investigated regarding its unique chemical and physical properties. In 2010, two MIPT alumni,...

Credit: Margareta Gustafsson Kubista/University of Gothenburg Researchers have identified an antioxidant – richly occurring in broccoli – as a new antidiabetic substance. A patient study...