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Credit: Courtesy Dr. Zhang BETHESDA, MD – Infection with Zika virus disrupts fetal brain development by interfering with the proliferation of human neural progenitor cells...

IMAGE: This is an image of fatty liver. Credit: CNIC Two proteins, p38 gamma and p38 delta, control the accumulation of fat in the liver,...

Credit: Colleen Mangold, Penn State Neuron-like cells created from a readily available cell line have allowed researchers to investigate how the human brain makes a...

Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON — In a new study, a group of Boston scientists, including researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, offer a genetic explanation...

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA — Harnessing the body's own immune system to destroy tumors is a tantalizing prospect that has yet to...

Credit: UIC The Freshwater Lab, a University of Illinois at Chicago-based environmental research and policy center, has been awarded two grants to support its work...

IMAGE: Pam Hinton found that exercise-associated bone loading during adolescence and young adulthood benefited bone density in adulthood. Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. –...

Credit: David Katz and Tim Weaver, UC Davis The advent of farming, especially dairy products, had a small but significant effect on the shape of...

Credit: Mayo Clinic Epilepsy–a condition that affects an estimated 65 million people worldwide–can be a difficult condition to treat. A team at the University of...

Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research Patients suffering from type 1 diabetes may soon have access to improved approaches to treat the disease, courtesy of...

Credit: Liu, et al. Fevers in a mother's first trimester of pregnancy increase the baby's risk for some heart defects and facial deformities such as...

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Dec. 1, 2016 -Hospitals in which the administration of epinephrine to patients whose hearts have stopped is delayed...

Credit: Nicho Hatsopoulos, Karthikeyan Balasubramanian A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago shows how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm...

Credit: Alisa Weigandt for Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. — The loss of motor function and mental acuity associated with Huntington's disease might be treatable by...

Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University Taking tissue samples from the liver to diagnose fatty liver can be replaced in most cases by a painless magnetic resonance...