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Imagine a nurse who gets the flu while working at a hospital. He goes home to recover — and an uninfected replacement nurse comes in....

Credit: Carla Possamai, Muriqui Project of Caratinga In a vulnerable forest in southeastern Brazil, where the air was once thick with the guttural chatter of...

A University of Central Florida cancer researcher has discovered a way to kill spreading breast cancer cells and her new technology has generated a licensing...

Credit: photo/©: Stowers Institute Nominated by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), chromosome researcher Professor Peter Baumann has...

This news release is available in German. Due to their rapid metastatic spread, pancreatic tumors are among the most aggressive types of cancer. Only three...

Credit: University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI–Influenza is a recurring global health threat that, according to the World Health Organization, is responsible for as many as 500,000...

A new cellular signal discovered by a team of scientists at the University of Chicago with scientists from Tel Aviv University provides a promising new...

Columbus, Ohio – When retroviruses such as HIV infect a cell, they first make a copy of their RNA genome in the form of DNA....

Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute. Extreme ups and downs in systolic blood pressure may be just as deadly as having consistently high blood pressure,...

Credit: Photo credit: C. Frazee, and contributed by M. McFall-Ngai Bacteria passed straight to children have more healthcare benefits than if they are transmitted via...

Credit: Photo by Katie O'Brien / UNC School of Medicine. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine announced...

Credits: Shutterstock UNSW researchers have identified a promising new avenue to explore in the search for stroke treatments, after translating findings from Alzheimer’s disease. The...

Credit: Sam Droege, U.S. Geological Survey As bees' social behavior evolved, their complex chemical communication systems evolved in concert, according to a study published online...

Credit: Lauren Gibson / Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at Vanderbilt University headed by Stevenson Professor of Chemistry David Wright has...

Credit: Sam Ogden BOSTON – In people with chronic infections or cancer, disease-fighting T cells tend to behave like an overworked militia – wheezing, ill-prepared,...