ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Inherited pathogenic variants in protein coding genes BARD1 and RAD51D increase a woman's likelihood of developing breast cancer, according to research conducted...
Impaired Sound Processing May Explain Persistent Hearing Deficits in People With Cochlear Implants Cochlear implants have restored hearing in hundreds of thousands of people around...
GLENVIEW, IL, Dec. 7, 2016 - Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a major risk for patients suffering from venous thromboembolism (VTE) and can often be fatal....
Iron accumulation in myocardial cells, potentially resulting in heart failure or fatal arrhythmia, is one of the complications most feared by patients with thalassemia major,...
Credit: Multiscale Materials Laboratory/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 7, 2016) - Bringing order to disorder is key to making stronger and greener cement, the paste...
Credit: Image provided by Jeffrey R. Martens, Thomas H. Maren Professor and Chairman of the University of Florida, College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology &...
BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) commends Congress for strengthening privacy protections for genetics research participants as part of the 21st...
Over the past three years, Canadian women desperate to conceive a child endured more than 82,000 attempts to become impregnated using in vitro fertilization (IVF),...
Credit: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) In recognition of their efforts to develop new treatments for fungal infections and stress-related...
Credit: Ian Grettenberger, University of California, Davis Neonicotinoids -- the most widely used class of insecticides -- significantly reduce populations of predatory insects when used...
BOSTON - A personalized cancer vaccine markedly improved outcomes for patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a potentially lethal blood cancer, in a clinical...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2016 - Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC have engineered a protein that reverses carbon monoxide (CO)...
Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands...
Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA/Goddard Rapid Response Team NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of newly formed Tropical Cyclone 05B in the Bay of Bengal, Northern...
A computer program is diving deep into water quality data from Pennsylvania, helping scientists detect potential environmental impacts of Marcellus Shale gas drilling. The work,...
