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A joint study conducted by researchers from the universities of Liverpool and Manchester has found a link between birth defects and certain types of epilepsy...

Credit: Mia Halleröd Palmgren Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method that enables them to manipulate light to follow any predetermined path...

Credit: Kristian Rasmussen, DTU How does the tightrope walker manage to maintain her balance and avoid that fatal drop from the sky? She carefully senses...

(Umea University) In northern Sweden, data from certain weather stations have shown that the snow season has been shortened by over two months in the...

Credit: Ilya Osterman Scientists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in cooperation with colleagues have worked out a safe, not that expensive and highly efficient...

Philadelphia, PA, November 29, 2016 - Disruptions of daily rhythms of the body's master internal clock cause depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in mice, reports a...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have shed new light on why and how a new class of drug is effective at fighting off leukaemia....

Approximately one third of persons with Alzheimer's disease use prescription medicines for pain after their diagnosis, reports a recent study conducted at the University of...

Credit: University of Southern Denmark One drug, one disease. This is how we traditionally think about pharmaceutical drugs, but many of them are actually effective...

Credit: No credit supplied. Australian researchers have discovered remarkable evolutionary changes to insulin regulation in two of the nation's most iconic native animal species -...

Despite the fact that more than four percent of the world's population suffer from depression, and even though approximately 1,500 individuals commit suicide each year...

Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC. With 29 747 newly reported HIV infections in 2015, the EU/EEA notification rate is similar to...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The Fas protein can either inhibit or promote the controlled cell death (apoptosis), depending on...

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Humans and Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world, could not be more different. In the wild, these four-legged carnivores...

Credit: Miranda et al., 2017 Researchers have discovered that mice with Huntington's disease (HD) suffer defects in muscle maturation that may explain some symptoms of...