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Credit: Courtesy of Philippe Hujoel Individuals with a slender lower face are about 25 percent more likely to be left-handed. This unexpected finding (abstract) was...

Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan – People rate food as tasting better, and eat more of it, when they eat with company than when they...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – November 2, 2016 – Researchers have identified the first two core genes that regulate the amount of deep sleep and...

Credit: Edith Martinez In a bid to improve mental health screening of Latino children from immigrant families, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have...

Johns Hopkins scientists say they have developed a blood test that spots tumor-specific DNA and protein biomarkers for early-stage pancreatic cancer. The combined “liquid biopsy”...

Credit: Courtesy Tierra Smiley Evans/UC Davis Scientists from the University of California, Davis, have detected a herpes virus in wild mountain gorillas that is very...

Credit: Courtesy photos provided by the winners Winners of the 2017 EurekAlert! Fellowships for International Science Reporters say the opportunity to attend the world's largest...

Credit: Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI -New research published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine highlights the pernicious effect of obesity on the long-term health of...

Credit: University of Birmingham Charity Cancer Research UK has awarded the University of Birmingham £1.5 million to fund a five-year research programme aimed at finding...

Athens, Ga. – A University of Georgia researcher has found that low levels of vitamin D may limit the effectiveness of HIV treatment in adults....

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – Pancreatic cancer has long been one of the hardest to treat. Now, in a new study, researchers at the Perelman...

Credit: Matthias Sieber / ETH Zurich / ACE Diatoms are a very common group of algae found not only in freshwater streams, rivers and lakes,...

Credit: CNIC A team of scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), led by Prof. Francisco Sánchez-Madrid, has characterized a cell...

Environmental factors may be a contributory cause in the development of some childhood cancers, leading scientists have revealed. Experts at Newcastle University, UK, have carried...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 17, 2016) – The mouth is widely considered the dirtiest part of the human body, yet babies have surprisingly...