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Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – January 19, 2017 – Scientists face a conundrum in their quest to understand how microRNAs regulate genes and...

Credit: Saint Louis University Where in the continental United States is Zika most likely to occur? An early online article in the American Journal of...

DURHAM, N.C. – There's a reason it's called a gut feeling. The brain and the gut are connected by intricate neural networks that signal hunger...

Credit: Daniel O. Hunter Introduced predators pose threats to biodiversity and are implicated in the extinction of many native species. A new Mammal Review analysis...

Credit: IMP A team of researchers led by scientists in Vienna, Dresden and Heidelberg has decoded the entire genetic information of the Mexican salamander axolotl....

Philadelphia, PA, August 3, 2016 – Estrogen occurs naturally in cow's milk. Recently, there has been concern that consuming milk containing elevated amounts of estrogen...

JUPITER, FL – Nov. 19, 2015 – In a new study that could have implications for future drug discovery efforts for a number of neurodegenerative...

Credit: Image courtesy of Greg Albers, M.D., Stanford University Medical Center. Advances in brain imaging can identify a greater number of stroke patients who can...

New findings from the University of Birmingham show that patients with chronic kidney disease patients and periodontitis (severe gum disease) have a higher mortality rate...

Credit: The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – Eating a Mediterranean diet could decrease the chances an overweight person will experience regular pain, new research...

Credit: Indiana University Center for Aging Research INDIANAPOLIS — The initial phase of OPTIMISTIC, an innovative program developed and implemented by clinician-researchers from the Indiana...

Credit: Miljan Simonovic. Humans need eight essential trace elements for good health, and one of them is selenium – a powerful antioxidant that is important...

Credit: Kalyan Varma A new WCS study finds that leopards are abundant in tea-garden landscapes in north-eastern India, but that their mere presence does not...

IMAGE: The autism-linked protein MDGA1 (red) is found in the zones of the brain that give rise to new neurons (green). Credit: Salk Institute LA...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – In a new, hospital-level analysis by health policy researcher Laura Attanasio at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Katy...