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Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – A new treatment for a rare and often incurable condition called dermatomyositis (DM) reduced the severity of the disease in...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Early results from a larger, ongoing study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner at the University of Massachusetts...

Montréal, January 13, 2016 – A study conducted by a research team led by Michel Cayouette, Full IRCM Research Professor and Director of the Cellular...

INDIANAPOLIS — The visible impacts of depression and stress that can be seen in a person's face — and contribute to shorter lives — can...

Credit: University of Delaware/ Evan Krape Everyone has challenges of one kind or another. But research shows that mistreatment at an early age can have...

Credit: Jonathan Fuller, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. — As the human species evolved over the last six million years, our resident microbes did the same,...

Credit: Brianna Jeska People are born with brains riddled with excess neural connections. Those are slowly pruned back until early childhood when, scientists thought, the...

Credit: University of Georgia Athens, Ga. – University of Georgia researchers, with colleagues from the University of Tokyo, have identified a new drug target for...

Credit: University of Kentucky LEXINGTON, Ky. (September 6, 2017) — In a paper published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, lead author Eseosa Ighodaro, PhD,...

Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Faculty members from the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington and the school’s Center for Sexual Health Promotion recently...

A new discovery published in the Nov. 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal shows that cancer cells use previously unknown channels to communicate with one...

Imagine a nurse who gets the flu while working at a hospital. He goes home to recover — and an uninfected replacement nurse comes in....

Credit: Carla Possamai, Muriqui Project of Caratinga In a vulnerable forest in southeastern Brazil, where the air was once thick with the guttural chatter of...

A University of Central Florida cancer researcher has discovered a way to kill spreading breast cancer cells and her new technology has generated a licensing...

Credit: photo/©: Stowers Institute Nominated by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), chromosome researcher Professor Peter Baumann has...