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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Human immunodeficiency virus is known to be a highly variable virus that adapts to a person’s immune response during the lifetime infection,...

Nematode worms may not be from Mars or Venus, but they do have sex-specific circuits in their brains that cause the males and females to...

EAST LANSING, Mich. – A rare, severe form of pulmonary hypertension, which up until now, has only been classified as a human lung disease, has...

A mutation that affects the proteins that package DNA–without changing the DNA itself–can cause a rare form of cancer, according to new findings in this...

A team of MIT and Harvard University students who invented a smartphone-connected sensor that detects lung cancer from a single breath took home the grand...

Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute...

A team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reported a research trifecta. They discovered a new vulnerable site on HIV...

MADISON, Wis. — A single defect in a gene that codes for a histone — a “spool” that wraps idle DNA — is linked to...

Since 2013, the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus has spread rapidly through South America and the Caribbean, and is now threatening Southern Europe and the southern US....

A class of drug that inhibits estrogen production and is used to treat breast cancer has been found to quickly and effectively suppress dangerous brain...

Credit: Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University Crowdsourcing has brought us Wikipedia and ways to understand how HIV proteins fold. It also provides an increasingly effective...

A new UBC-developed method to isolate cancer cells that have escaped from a tumour could soon pave the way for improved diagnosis and treatment. The...

Signaling a potential new approach to treating diabetes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard University have produced insulin-secreting cells...

When electrical waves in the heart run amok in a condition called arrhythmia, sudden death can occur. To save the life of a patient at...

Credit: Alexander N. Patananan To study certain aspects of cells, researchers need the ability to take the innards out, manipulate them, and put them back....