An ancient latrine near a desert in north-western China has revealed the first archaeological evidence that travellers along the Silk Road were responsible for the...
Credit: Tilray Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24, 2017 – Although cannabis had been used for many centuries for treatment of seizure disorders, medical use became...
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA – Thomas Wickiewicz, MD will be inducted into the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Hall...
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 24, 2017) – Receptors on the surface of our cells enable a wide variety of functions from our sense...
Fragments of cancer DNA circulating in a patient's bloodstream could help doctors deliver more personalized treatment for liver cancer, Japanese researchers report. The new research...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 10, 2017-A new study shows that the threat of firearm use by a male partner...
Credit: University of Illinois Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has provided the first evidence that viruses and hosts share highly similar regulatory...
Credit: UTA A biologist at The University of Texas at Arlington who studies ecology and evolutionary biology is the recipient of a prestigious career development...
Credit: Rachel Skubel In recent decades, trusted first aid resources have recommended stings from man o' war (Physalia species) be treated differently from other jellies....
IMAGE: University of Iowa chemists have unraveled the chemistry underlying how some deadly diseases, such as tuberculosis, produce thymine, a DNA base critical for these...
Credit: University of Tsukuba University of Tsukuba researcher discovers why we have the tendency to fall asleep in the absence of motivating stimuli, i.e., when...
It is estimated that 46.8 million people worldwide are living with dementia, with Alzheimer's disease the most common form. Now researchers from the University of...
Cold Spring Harbor, NY – A doctor treating a patient with a potentially fatal metastatic breast tumor would be very pleased to find, after administering...
Credit: IST Austria/Reiner Riedler Metastasis, the process in which a tumor spreads to other parts of the body, is responsible for 90% of deaths from...
It's been about a decade since the promise of COX-2 inhibitors — drugs that relieve arthritis pain and inflammation without the gastrointestinal side effects of...
