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Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – During the millions of pregnancies that occur in the United States every year, expectant moms learn oodles about...

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found a link between higher levels of a specific kind of air pollution in...

A defective gene linked to autism influences how neurons connect and communicate with each other in the brain, according to a study from Washington University...

Credit: Richard Ross With his legs outstretched, T. barely fits the diameter of the small animal pen that surrounds him. Clad in an orange jumpsuit,...

A new discovery published in the Nov. 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal shows that cancer cells use previously unknown channels to communicate with one...

The H5 avian influenza A virus that devastated North American poultry farms in 2014-15 was initially spread by migratory waterfowl, but evidence suggests such highly...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Heart attacks provoke an acute immune response. Leukocytes rush to the heart muscle to remove dead cells and begin building...

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that Aric Rogers, Ph.D., has received a grant of $455,000 over...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 19, 2017–In the roundtable entitled "Expert Panel on Understanding Cannabis: Medicine, Society, Government," the panelists...

IMAGE: This is an immunofluorescence image of a mature Plasmodium berghei liver stage parasite in murine liver. Credit: Kirsten Hanson Kirsten Hanson, assistant professor of...

Credit: n/a TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — During major epidemics, cramped airplane cabins are fertile ground for the spread of infection, but new research suggests changing routine...

Credit: Department of Defense In a Veterans Affairs study of more than 300 enlisted Army National Guard and Army Reserve members who had deployed to...

Credit: Louise Cornmark The most aggressive variant of brain tumour – glioblastoma – has an average survival rate of 15 months. There is therefore an...

Dr Jayne Wood from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust LUGANO-MADRID, 9 September, 2017 – A new tool to identify patients who would benefit from...

Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech Researchers from Michigan Technological University know the smartest way to know a moose is by its brain. Specifically, skull measurements reveal...