CHICAGO - A new treatment may diminish a dangerous side effect associated with transfusions of red blood cells (RBCs) known as pulmonary hypertension, an elevated...
The EU area is experiencing challenges in sourcing critical metals. Solutions to this are being sought by the METGROW+ project, coordinated by VTT Technical Research...
PHILADELPHIA - Radiotherapy destroys cancer cells using high-energy ionizing radiation to damage DNA and induce cell death. About two million patients per year in the...
In a study of healthy postmenopausal women, reproductive life events related to sex hormones, including earlier age at menarche, later age at last pregnancy, length...
In a population-based Canadian study of children with epilepsy, each of whom had access to universal health care, those from poor families had the same...
Credit: Springer/Controlled Research Society The estimated number of visually impaired people in the world is 285 million, with 39 million blind people. About 65 percent...
New research suggests that physical fitness, body mass index (BMI), IQ, and stress resilience in young adulthood may have effects on the risk of developing...
Credit: Lauren Mulligan/Wits University Hollywood celebrities spend large amounts of dollars on it. The hunky stud at the local pub thinks he knows it. But...
Following decades of clinical research largely excluding females, scientists are finding that there are large differences in men and women that go well beyond their...
Credit: Sami Nabhan/FSU Jena Life took hold on land at least as early as 3.2 billion years ago, suggests a study by scientists from Berlin,...
A new comprehensive study of Australian natural hazards paints a picture of increasing heatwaves and extreme bushfires as this century progresses, but with much more...
Credit: Glen D'Souza, Christian Kost / Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology It has been known for quite some time that genetically modified bacteria, which...
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Certain proteins in the blood of children can predict incipient type 1 diabetes, even before...
As mammals evolve, so do mammalian viruses. In doing so, they develop creative and effective ways to counter and evade the antiviral responses of their...
Researchers from the University of Adelaide have successfully tested a drug that is showing some early promise in efforts to prevent pre-term birth. The findings,...
