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Credit: University of Minnesota A breakthrough trial at the University of Minnesota testing a new UMN-developed drug resulted in improved survival rates for dogs diagnosed...

Novel adaptations discovered in hibernating animals may reveal ways to mitigate injuries associated with strokes, heart attacks and organ transplants, according to researchers at the...

London, January 14, 2016 – Scientists have uncovered part of a protein found in humans and other primates that can help us fight off HIV....

Credit: University of Arizona Cancer Center A University of Arizona Cancer Center research team is engaged in a series of studies to investigate how genistein,...

Credit: Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University Medical Center The Human Vaccines Project and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) today announced that they joined forces with...

Credits: Wikimedia Commons FRANKFURT. To date, researchers assumed that anesthetics interrupt signal transmission between different areas of the brain and that is why we lose...

Credit: University of Michigan "Devastating" and "dismal." That's how leading researchers describe the present outlook for malignant brain tumors. The median survival rate for patients...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – In a paper published today in Cancer Research, researchers: 1) identify a biomarker enzyme associated with aggressive glioma brain tumors,...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Researchers are closer to solving the puzzle of a complex neurological condition called 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome. Individuals with this condition...

Credit: Purdue University photo/Mark Simons WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers, led by a Purdue University anthropology professor, have found that statistical methods and 3D imaging...

Credit: Terry Dial PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Throughout nature, moms engage in a trade-off: Churn out a bevy of offspring and hope for the best, or...

This research summary was developed as a public education tool by the Health in Aging Foundation. The Foundation is a national non-profit established in 1999…...

Studying blood serum compounds of different molecular weights has led scientists to a set of biomarkers that may enable development of a highly accurate screening...

Credit: Mohammed Uddin A study of nearly 6,000 families, combining three genetic sequencing technologies, finds that mutations that occur after conception play an important role...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five-year, $751,000 faculty early...