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Credit: Alisa Weigandt for Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- Long before the Zika virus became a global fear, cytomegalovirus, or CMV, was commonly infecting developing...

PITTSBURGH, July 6, 2017 - Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences and UPMC have uncovered the molecular mechanism underlying corticosteroid...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, July 6, 2017--The late adolescent years are an important period for gaining bone mineral, even after a teenager attains...

Credit: Jackson Smith | University of Virginia Health System Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have received more than $8.6 million in...

Credit: (UZH) It is a known fact that microbes on farms protect children from asthma and allergies. But even non-microbial molecules can have a protective...

Credit: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, HKUST Hydrogels, noted for their biomimetic properties, are the leading materials for biomedical applications, such as drug delivery...

It's never easy to orientate oneself in a new place - that applies to rats as well. Researchers from the Ruhr University Bochum have examined...

Quanterix Corporation, a company digitizing biomarker analysis with the goal of advancing the science of precision health, and DestiNA Genomics Ltd, a manufacturer of patented...

PHILADELPHIA -- (July 6, 2017) -- A novel, synthetic, DNA-based strategy to provide protection against a broad array of influenza viruses has been developed in...

A new report finds more than half of all cancer deaths in men in 2013 in China and more than a third of those in...

Medicare policies governing cancer patients' end-of-life care are based on generalized statistics -- such as average survival time and treatment costs--that often fail to reflect...

Credit: Hiroki R. Ueda et al. Researchers in Japan have developed a method to image cancer at the single-cell level by using chemical techniques to...

The researchers from the University of Exeter analysed clinical data from over 4,500 patients across the UK who were later diagnosed with bowel cancer. In...

New York, NY (July 3, 2017) - The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named five new Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators at its spring 2017 Clinical...

By developing a new technique for labeling the gene segments of influenza viruses, researchers now know more about how influenza viruses enter the cell and...