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One of the greatest challenges facing artificial intelligence development is understanding the human brain and figuring out how to mimic it. Now, one group reports...

The U.S. banned PCBs nearly four decades ago, but they persist in the environment and have been found in animals and humans since then. Now...

The health effects of zinc and iron deficiencies can be devastating, particularly in developing countries. One strategy for addressing this problem involves fertilizing crops with...

By comparing variations in protein expression in tumor samples from a single melanoma patient, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering...

Credit: Asaad et. al. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When you do something right, you can't learn anything from your success without a system in the brain...

Credit: Frédéric Leblond, Kevin Petrecca Montreal, June 28, 2017 - Patients with common widespread forms of cancer will enjoy longer life expectancy and reduced risk...

(Wednesday, June 28, 2017 -- Toronto) - Psychological support and new coping skills are helping patients at high risk of developing chronic pain and long-term,...

Many people living with dementia reside in long-term care facilities, where the lack of stimulation can result in behaviors such as hitting, screaming, and wandering....

Belmont, MA - Researchers from McLean Hospital have been issued a patent allowance for their invention involving the use of xenon gas to aid in...

Credit: Photo by Andrea Starr/PNNL The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is part of a nationwide effort to learn more about the role...

Credit: Lauren A. Hayes Using five different scientific approaches, a team including University of Wyoming researchers has given considerable support to the idea that humans...

WASHINGTON -- Acute and chronic infections in a person's upper gastrointestinal tract appear to be linked to Parkinson's disease, say scientists at Georgetown University Medical...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- With 20,000 diagnoses each year, ovarian cancer is the ninth most common cancer and fifth leading cause of cancer...

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Pfizer Inc.'s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) recently announced the renewal of an agreement designed to...

Recent increases in an unregulated ozone-depleting substance, could delay recovery of Antarctic ozone levels by 5-30 years, depending on emissions scenarios. The findings, published in...