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Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Feb. 1, 2017 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a gene that protects the gut from...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Molecular biologists led by Leonid Pobezinsky and his wife and research collaborator Elena Pobezinskaya at the University of Massachusetts...

Credit: UBC Okanagan campus Newly published research suggests that common psychedelic drugs–such as magic mushrooms, LSD and mescaline (a substance derived from the peyote cactus)–may...

Credit: University of Exeter Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how different compartments (or organelles) of human cells interact. Organelles are the functional units...

Credit: Brown University PROVIDENCE RI — The human body has two primary kinds of fat–white fat, which stores excess calories and is associated with obesity,...

A decline in the number of heart patients undergoing unnecessary PCI (angioplasty) procedures reflects improvements in clinical decision-making and documentation to determine which patients benefit...

Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS — Communication between patients and clinicians that is patient-centered, taking into account patient concerns and preferences has important implications fo..

Credit: (C) 2016, American Geriatrics Society Experts at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today unveiled new guidance on care and decision-making for a unique and...

Credit: Christina Corbaci, TSRI WHAT: A 10-year Lassa virus research project has yielded structural and functional details of a key viral surface protein that could...

Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Children and adolescents in mainland China are facing two serious and conflicting public health threats: ongoing exposure to...

Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, January 22, 2018 – Alcohol is the leading cause of liver cirrhosis and liver-related deaths. Results of a large long-term...

IMAGE: The University of Delaware's Hong Li, assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences, is part of a team of researchers from...

What are the mucocutaneous (skin and mucous membrane) features of a 44-year-old man who returned from a six-day vacation to Puerto Rico with confirmatory testing...

Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health Some mommy-shaming "wars" become national news headlines. Actress Reese Witherspoon was recently food-shamed for f..

It has a funny name – coxsackievirus – but there's nothing funny about how this tiny germ and its close relatives sicken their hosts. Colorado...