Scientists Identify Seven Proteins as Likely Suspects
Until it burst onto the scene earlier this year, Zika was an obscure, little-known virus. As a result, scientists know little about how it works. Over the past year, they have learned that...
Scaffold modelled using image-based Lattice Boltzmann method. LEFT: Calculated shear stress (SS). RIGHT: Soft tis-sue is subtracted using image processing. Images represent a 0.62 mm x 0.91 mm x 0.62 mm volume. In these images gray scale represents the...
Escalating rungs of social support.Credit: Penn Medicine
Leveraging existing relationships with friends and family may be a more effective way to improve patients' health and encourage new healthy habits and behaviors than increasing interactions with physicians or other clinicians. In...
A new study led by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) sheds light on a signaling circuit in cells that drives therapy resistance in prostate cancer. The researchers found that targeting the components of...
Researchers have found evidence that could shed new light on the complex community of trillions of microorganisms living in all our guts, and how they interact with our bodies.
Scientists at the University of Exeter Medical School and University of...
This visual abstract depicts the findings of Griffin et al. that the magnitude of microbiota responses to diet interventions varies among individuals. Dispersal of diet-responsive bacterial taxa between hosts enhance subsequent responses to diet interventions. Credit: Griffin et al....
Taking certain omega-3 fatty acid supplements during pregnancy can reduce the risk of childhood asthma by almost one third, according to a new study. Image Credit: Flickr/Jo Christian Oterhals
Taking certain omega-3 fatty acid supplements during pregnancy can reduce the...
Electron microscopic image of a single human lymphocyte. Credit: Dr. Triche National Cancer Institute
A new study led by Cedars-Sinai investigators dramatically illustrates the complexity of cancer by identifying more than 2,000 genetic mutations in tissue samples of esophageal tumors....
In this Friday, March 29, 2013 file photo, fresh fish rest on ice, displayed for sale at the Fulton Fish Market in New York. In research by the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, published Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, children...
Animated GIF revealing trends in personal health spending in the US from 1997 to 2013. Credit: IHME
Just 20 conditions make up more than half of all spending on health care in the United States, according to a new comprehensive...
If someone has rotator cuff problems, it could be a sign that there is something else going on. They may need to manage risk factors for heart disease. Image Credit: Flickr/Brian
After all the lifting, hauling and wrapping, worn out...
