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Credit: Horwitz Lab/UW Medicine Seattle UW Medicine researchers have developed a technique for inserting a gene into specific cell types in the adult brain in...

The immunotherapy nivolumab is kinder than chemotherapy for people with advanced head and neck cancer - easing many of the negative effects of the disease...

Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer institute BOSTON -- Some patients with a form of advanced kidney cancer that carries a poor prognosis benefited from an experimental drug...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today applauded the leadership of Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) and Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) in reintroducing...

Humans belong to a select club of species that enjoy crisp color vision in daylight, thanks to a small spot in the center of the...

Credit: Penn State University University Park, PA -- A new analysis shows that individuals with high levels of genetic variation and elevated exposure to ozone...

Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth HOUSTON - (June 23, 2017) ¬- Just as he has changed the lives of people suffering from a devastating genetic disease,...

Discovered more than two decades ago, the hormone leptin has been widely hailed as the key regulator of leanness. Yet, the pivotal experiments that probe...

Credit: Prober laboratory Humans are diurnal animals, meaning that we usually sleep at night and are awake during the day, due at least in part...

MADISON, Wisconsin - Ann Palmenberg and Rob Kalejta heard complaints at one too many virology conferences about the perceived lack of women among the invited...

Credit: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As farmers survey their fields this summer, several questions come to mind:...

The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce winners of the Biophysical Journal Outstanding Poster Awards given at the "Single-Cell Biophysics: Measurement, Modulation, and Modeling," meeting...

Washington, DC - June 23, 2017 - Toxins produced by three different species of fungus growing indoors on wallpaper may become aerosolized, and easily inhaled....

MAYWOOD, IL - A Loyola University Chicago study published this month has found an increase in the percentage of breast cancer patients who were diagnosed...

WASHINGTON (June 23, 2017) -- Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) found that certain symptoms are more and less predictive of patients' risk for...