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Virtually the entire population of sub-Saharan Africa, and some 70% of African Americans, carry a gene variant (allele) which results in a trait referred to...

Cholesterol, a naturally occurring compound at the lung surface, has been shown to have a clear effect on the properties of this nanoscale film that...

Researchers at the University of York have shown that tobacco use is more common among HIV positive individuals than HIV negative individuals. The study, published...

A number of previous scientific studies have found that among mothers 35 or older, there is an elevated risk that their children are born preterm...

Washington, DC, June 1, 2017 - A diagnosis of autism alone does not increase the risk of violent offending, suggests a study published in the...

Men and women experiencing problems with gaming machines (slot machines) display the same signs that their habit is out of control. However, the two sexes...

Credit: A. Raine The island of Kauai is home to two endangered seabirds, the Hawaiian Petrel and the Newell's Shearwater. Monitoring these birds, which are...

Large-scale fisheries receive about four times more subsidies than their small-scale counterparts, with up to 60 per cent of those subsidies promoting overfishing. A recent...

Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - Giving birth at home is the most significant risk factor for neonatal deaths in major sections of...

A new study showing how interventions by community pharmacists can help asthma patients achieve better asthma control could have major cost benefits for health services...

A computer's ability to predict a patient's lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs is a step closer to becoming a reality, thanks...

(University of Edinburgh) Imaging tools to identify abnormalities that cause heart attacks are to be developed in a £1.8m research initiative.

If these alkaloids are not properly removed in a so-called "debittering process", they can trigger poisoning in humans which affects the nervous, circulatory and digestive...

Credit: Tomoko Nishiyama Nagoya, Japan - A sister chromatid is one half of an identical pair of chromatids formed by the replication of a single...

The cultural differences between the United States and Norway are relatively small, but the cultures differ significantly from one another in a few very relevant...