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Credit: SCB Celldance 2016 and Daniela Cimini, Virginia Tech SAN FRANCISCO, CA--Riding a wave of powerful new imaging technologies, three ASCB member labs will take...

PHILADELPHIA - Labor induction is one of the most common medical procedures in the world, with nearly one-quarter of women who deliver in the U.S....

Credit: Stephen Wietgrefe Combination drug treatments have become successful at long-term control of HIV infection, but the goal of totally wiping out the virus and...

Credit: Andy Y. Shih, Ph.D., and Robert Underly, Medical University of South Carolina. Pericytes are the primary locus of matrix-mellaproteinase-9-dependent (MMP-9) capillary damage and blood...

Scientists have created a map of all 1,578 licensed drugs and their mechanisms of action - as a means of identifying 'uncharted waters' in the...

Experiments using laser light and pieces of gray material the size of fingernail clippings may offer clues to a fundamental scientific riddle: What is the...

Psychiatric polypharmacy is defined as the use of two or more drugs in the treatment of a psychiatric condition. Although, a lack of consensus has...

Credit: Giulio Viola, University of Bologna Tectonic plates, big sections of Earth's crust and blocks underneath them, are constantly moving. The areas where these sections...

The development of antibiotics generated a revolution in the way we look and treat bacterial infections. In spite of the initial success, new problems came...

Credit: University of Konstanz Through the collaboration of the teams of Professor Elke Deuerling and Professor Christine Peter within the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 969...

Credit: Vasco Elbrecht and Florian Leese Often referred to as "the blue planet", the majority of the Earth consists of aquatic ecosystems. Human land-use change,...

Repeated dieting may lead to weight gain because the brain interprets the diets as short famines and urges the person to store more fat for...

A large analysis of current research shows that people who eat at least 20g of nuts a day have a lower risk of heart disease,...

Women with dementia have fewer visits to the GP, receive less health monitoring and take more potentially harmful medication than men with dementia, new UCL...

Credit: Ben Moore Extermination of dingoes and the consequent loss of small mammals - not just overgrazing by livestock - have led to a rapid...