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Until it burst onto the scene earlier this year, Zika was an obscure, little-known virus. As a result, scientists know little about how it works....

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have developed a new imaging technique that could revolutionize how eye health and disease are assessed. The...

SAN FRANCISCO, California - Jan. 2, 2017 - The International Neuromodulation Society (INS) journal Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface is publishing expert, evidence-based guidance...

Credit: Greta Keenan The amount of energy generated by renewables fluctuates depending on the natural variability of resources at any given time. The sun isn't...

In a survey of almost 2,000 people who said they had had a past negative experience when taking psilocybin-containing "magic mushrooms," Johns Hopkins researchers say...

A treatment billed as a potential breakthrough in the fight against disease, including cancer, could back-fire and make the disease fitter and more damaging, new...

Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 30, 2016--Liver-directed gene therapy delivered using adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors to treat diseases such as...

Phoenix, AZ -- You've likely heard about being in the right place at the wrong time, but what about having the right genes in the...

Mutations that have been linked to endometrial cancer can be found in the uterine lavage fluid of pre- and post-menopausal women both with and without...

Credit: Illustration by Michael Pluth EUGENE, Ore. - December 30, 2016 - Molecules with the potential to deliver healing power to stressed cells - such...

Credit: Robert Boston Among American adults who have a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or clinical depression, 57 percent are smokers. In...

English is now considered the common language, or 'lingua franca', of global science. All major scientific journals seemingly publish in English, despite the fact that...

Researchers have found evidence that could shed new light on the complex community of trillions of microorganisms living in all our guts, and how they...

Credit: Yun Li and Julien Muffat CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (December 29, 2016) - One of the most significant ways in which the human brain is unique...

In December 2016, the American Journal of Vector Ecology published two articles by Yuri Novikov, a scientist at the TSU Biological Institute devoted to the...