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Credit: Suvagata Roy Chowdhury When Chlamydia trachomatis infects a human cell, it faces a huge challenge: It must prevent the cell from triggering programmed cell...

Credit: Mohamad El Haj The patient is a retired teacher who had reported memory difficulties 12 months prior to the study. These difficulties referred to...

Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine In a first-of-its-kind study published in the March 1, 2017 edition of Molecular Therapy, researchers from the National Institute on Deafness...

Credit: Dr Mark Shepherd, University of Kent Research co-led by bioscientists at the University of Kent provides a molecular explanation for how the bacterium behind...

Invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) infections occur when Salmonella bacteria, which normally cause diarrhea, enter the bloodstream and spread through the body. iNTS infections may cause...

Credit: Takahiro Arima In a milestone achievement for better understanding the development and function of the human placenta, scientists have derived and grown trophoblast stem...

Credit: Photo credit Adeline Bougouin. Ammonia gas packs quite the smelly punch. In small doses, it's what makes smelling salts so effective. But high levels...

Credit: KU Leuven Lab of Comparative Endocrinology – Joke Delbaere & Pieter Vancamp Thyroid hormones are very important for the development of the brain. And...

Credit: Ulf Sirborn Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have measured the absolute numbers of short, non-coding, RNA sequences in individual embryonic stem cells. The new method...

Credit: Image: Stuart Hay, ANU Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) and Heidelberg University in Germany have found an essential component in the DNA...

Credit: ATS Feb. 10, 2017–In the largest epidemiological study conducted in the developing world, researchers found that as exposures to fine particulate air pollution in...

Credit: Pixabay PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Persistent pain is common among the nearly 4 million Americans who arrive each year at hospital emergency departments (EDs) after...

A handful of tiny teeth found in Israel's Negev desert led an international team of researchers to describe a new species of rodent which has...

Credit: The Ji Lab/Baylor College of Medicine Understanding how the brain remembers can one day shed light on what went wrong when memory fails, such...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. Sept. 5, 2017. Kessler Foundation researchers have authored a new article that has implications for our understanding of the...