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Credit: NIAID The body has a natural way of fighting cancer – it's called the immune system, and it is tuned to defend our cells...

Credit: University of Tennessee, Knoxville KNOXVILLE–Do very-preterm or very-low-weight babies develop anxiety and mood disorders later in life? Julia Jaekel, assistant professor of child and...

Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 18, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is awarding $275,000 in research...

Credit: University of Warwick School bullies and their victims are more likely to want plastic surgery than other teens — new University of Warwick research...

Credit: Image courtesy of Shen lab A new study published in the journal Neuron sheds light on the normal function of LRRK2, the most common...

Credit: Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University Medical Center In childhood, asthma is more common in boys than girls. But around the time of puberty, that...

The bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one microbe type that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome...

Credit: Kim E. Andreassen, University of Bergen. By studying the effect of 1000 medicines, researchers discovered that medicine against asthma and blood pressure is linked...

Credit: European Patent Office The paper based on the study undertaken by the team of Lithuanian researchers was bestowed Paper of the Year award by...

Credit: Piramal Imaging GmbH, Berlin Germany RESTON, Va. ?- Blood clots in veins and arteries can lead to heart attack, stroke, and pulmonary embolism, which...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA–(June 7, 2017) Despite advances in neuroscience, the brain is still very much a black box–no one even knows how many...

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. – As a graduate student, Scarlet Shell spent four months in rural and urban clinics in Peru studying...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 1, 2017–A pilot study of guanfacine, a controlled-release alpha2-agonist, in children and adolescents with general,...

Credit: The American Phytopathological Soceity St. Paul, Minn. (March 2017)–Cover cropping, or the practice of growing unharvested crops to protect and enrich the soil during...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Looking to improve the success rate of assisted reproductive technologies, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine investigated in more detail...