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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...

This news release is available in German. Due to their rapid metastatic spread, pancreatic tumors are among the most aggressive types of cancer. Only three...

Credit: University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI–Influenza is a recurring global health threat that, according to the World Health Organization, is responsible for as many as 500,000...

A new cellular signal discovered by a team of scientists at the University of Chicago with scientists from Tel Aviv University provides a promising new...

Columbus, Ohio – When retroviruses such as HIV infect a cell, they first make a copy of their RNA genome in the form of DNA....

Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute. Extreme ups and downs in systolic blood pressure may be just as deadly as having consistently high blood pressure,...