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Only a small percentage of obese patients who have undergone bariatric surgery to help them control their weight follow up this procedure with further plastic...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 13, 2017 -- Want a younger, more perfect-looking you? Skin can stay firm and stretchy thanks to protein...

How difficult is it to conceive? According to a widely-held view, fewer than one in three embryos make it to term, but a new study...

Credit: Stefan_Schranz/ pixabay, CC 0 FRANKFURT. To date, researchers assumed that anesthetics interrupt signal transmission between different areas of the brain and that is why...

Savings are also being achieved by levelling out power consumption peaks Under VTT's leadership, Finland has the world's most energy-efficient supermarket, which consumes only 40%...

(Lancaster University) A Lancaster University physicist has been awarded a £1.4M EPSRC Career Fellowship over five years.Dr Dmitry Zmeev is a member of the Lancaster...

TUCSON, Ariz., and AUSTIN, Texas - June 13, 2017 - The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and Critical Path Institute (C-Path) announce the availability...

Credit: Jenna Luecke/Univ. of Texas at Austin About a third of the world's fish stocks are being overfished, meaning they're being harvested faster than they...

Credit: Brian Lovett Malaria kills nearly half a million people every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In some of the hardest-hit areas...

Fever during pregnancy may raise the risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the child, according to a study led by scientists at the Center...

Credit: Shira Lottem/ Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown From birds to mammals, from fish to reptiles, the immediate reaction to an impending threat to the...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (June 13, 2017 - 12:01 am ET) - If you have gone through life avoiding certain antibiotics because you think you're allergic...

Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A sequential multiple assignment randomized (SMART) trial allows researchers to test two hypotheses at once. The new trial...

Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific Philadelphia, PA, June 13, 2017 - The emergence of new pathogens like West Nile Virus, Ebola, Dengue, and Zika, threaten human...

A Dartmouth study finds that "Big Food" companies are striving to make food more sustainable from farm to factory but have less power than you...