A large study published by the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Oslo in the highly ranked Journal of Clinical Oncology found that using high factor sunscreen compared with low factor sunscreen can decrease the risk of melanoma...
This image show neuromuscular tissue engineering: hiNSCs (red) grown in co-culture with skeletal muscle (green), with cell nuclei visualized by blue DAPI staining.Credit: Dana M. Cairns, Tufts University
Tufts University researchers have discovered a new technique for generating rapidly-differentiating human...
Researchers at the University of Adelaide say they may have discovered a new target in the fight against depression: a faulty gene that is linked to cardiovascular and metabolic conditions.
A team lead by the University of Adelaide's Discipline of...
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Using archival documents, a new report published online by JAMA Internal Medicine examines the sugar industry's role in coronary heart disease research and suggests the industry sponsored research to influence the scientific debate to cast...
A new study finds highly-stressed women 40-percent less likely to conceive during ovulation window.Credit: © firesam / Flickr
What many have long suspected, has been scientifically confirmed -- women's high stress reduces their probability of conception.
University of Louisville School of...
Directly reading brain signals could provide a way for people to communicate their thoughts and emotions.Credit: Image courtesy of Stanford University
It does not take an infinite number of monkeys to type a passage of Shakespeare. Instead, it takes a...
Several large international groups of researchers report data that more than doubles the number of sites in the human genome tied to blood pressure regulation. One of the studies, by Johns Hopkins University scientists in collaboration with many other...
The microbes living in a baby's gut during its first month of life may directly impact the developing immune system, leading to a higher risk of allergies and asthma later in childhood, according to a study by researchers at...
Magnetic resonance image (MRI) of the fetal brain in a Zika virus infected primate. The large white region is abnormal and indicates an accumulation of fluid in the brain. Credit: University of Washington
For the first time, abnormal brain development...
For the first time, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have been able to identify in human cancers two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by ionising radiation. These fingerprint patterns may now enable doctors...
A new study of 3050 twins finds moderately vigorous physical activity -- i.e., more strenuous than walking -- to be associated with better cognition in a 25-year follow-up.
A long-term follow-up study of 3050 twins from the Finnish Twin Cohort...
