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Everyone knows that tobacco products are bad for your health, and even the new e-cigarettes may have harmful toxins. However, according to research at Texas...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have managed to produce the first molecular map of the genes that are active in the various cells of the human...

UH researchers have identified a unique epigenetic footprint in specific types of immune cells from blood that can identify individuals with HIV that have a...

Previous studies have shown a correlation between the design of cities and growing epidemics of injuries and non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and...

Hatha yoga is an increasingly popular form of physical activity and meditative practice in the U.S. It is important to understand the calorie cost and...

Credit: Copyright Loughborough University New research from Loughborough University has revealed many four-year-olds are not physically ready to start school. Early Years specialists in the...

Credit: Doug Rowland, UC Davis. About one-third of 1751 genes studied in the first comprehensive survey of the mouse genome are essential to life, according...

UT Southwestern faculty members named Faculty Scholars (l-r) include Dr. Elizabeth Chen, Dr. Neal Alto, Dr. Benjamin Tu, Dr. Julie Pfeiffer, and Dr. Ralph DeBerardinis....

DALLAS – September 21, 2016 – Combining targeted radiation therapy with a neutrophil stimulant enhances anti-tumor immunity, according to new research into cancer immunology at...

Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. — While searching for a non-invasive way to detect prostate cancer cells circulating in blood, Duke Cancer Institute researchers have...

Dr. Barbara Haley (left) and Dr. Roshni Rao DALLAS – September 20, 2016 – Genetic testing of mitochondrial DNA could reveal otherwise unknown ancestry that...

The peptide amyloid beta plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease. Now new research from Washington University in St. Louis shows it shape-shifts in order to...

Rice researchers James Tour, left, and William Sikkema. Credit: Jeff FitlowThe combination of graphene nanoribbons made with a process developed at Rice University and a...

Thomas Hawke, associate professor of pathology and molecular medicine at Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and senior author of both studies.Loss of physical strength...

The researchers could watch in a top-down view the 36 participants passing through a bottleneck during a simple evacuation situation. Each pedestrian was controlled by...