Credit: British American Tobacco A new laboratory study reveals that cigarette smoke completely prevented wound healing at concentrations over 20% in a wound healing assay,...
Credit: Ghost Orchestra Project/LIMSI WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2017 -- Paris' Cathedral of Notre Dame has a ghost orchestra that is always performing, thanks to...
Credit: Kurt Vikman WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2017 -- People who are visually impaired will often use a cane to feel out their surroundings. With...
Credit: Miles M. Aron, courtesy of BUBBL, University of Oxford, England WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2017 -- Your brain is armored. It lives in a...
Credit: Horwitz Lab/UW Medicine Seattle UW Medicine researchers have developed a technique for inserting a gene into specific cell types in the adult brain in...
The immunotherapy nivolumab is kinder than chemotherapy for people with advanced head and neck cancer - easing many of the negative effects of the disease...
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer institute BOSTON -- Some patients with a form of advanced kidney cancer that carries a poor prognosis benefited from an experimental drug...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today applauded the leadership of Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) and Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) in reintroducing...
Humans belong to a select club of species that enjoy crisp color vision in daylight, thanks to a small spot in the center of the...
Credit: Penn State University University Park, PA -- A new analysis shows that individuals with high levels of genetic variation and elevated exposure to ozone...
Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth HOUSTON - (June 23, 2017) ¬- Just as he has changed the lives of people suffering from a devastating genetic disease,...
Discovered more than two decades ago, the hormone leptin has been widely hailed as the key regulator of leanness. Yet, the pivotal experiments that probe...
Credit: Prober laboratory Humans are diurnal animals, meaning that we usually sleep at night and are awake during the day, due at least in part...
MADISON, Wisconsin - Ann Palmenberg and Rob Kalejta heard complaints at one too many virology conferences about the perceived lack of women among the invited...
Credit: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As farmers survey their fields this summer, several questions come to mind:...
