Stem cell graft.
Credit: Copyright Frank Jacobsen
A medical team at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum's burn unit and the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Modena (Italy) were the first ever to successfully treat a child suffering from extensive skin...
A new paper reports where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.
Credit: © taa22 / Fotolia
Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five-year, $751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant...
Herbert “Skip” Virgin IV, MD, PhD, talks with postdoctoral researcher Dale Balce, PhD. Virgin led a study linking intestinal viruses to the development of Type 1 diabetes. The study showed that children who carried a specific virus belonging to...
AIDS deaths are falling in most countries worldwide, but the rate of new infections increased in several countries over the past decade, threatening to undermine efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, a new scientific paper shows.
The study...
"It's critical that adults aim for seven to nine hours of sleep each night to receive the health benefits of sleep, but this is especially true for those battling a chronic condition," said Dr. M. Safwan Badr.
Credit: © Kletr...
This is a photograph of a WRAIR Pilot Bioproduction Facility. Credit: WRAIR
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and collaborators at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have completed a promising preclinical study of...
Autoimmunity plays a role in Parkinson's disease, according to new research.
Credit: © Feng Yu / Fotolia
Researchers have found the first direct evidence that autoimmunity -- in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues -- plays a role...
The world remains "grossly underprepared" for outbreaks of infectious disease, which are likely to become more frequent in the coming decades, warn a team of international experts in The BMJ.
They reviewed reports on the recent Ebola virus outbreak in...
This is a colorized SEM image of a neuron (orange) interfaced with the nanowire array.
Credit: Integrated Electronics and Biointerfaces Laboratory, UC San Diego
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed nanowires that can...
An analysis of over 40,000 commonly available packaged foods and beverages in Canada has found that 66 per cent of these products -- including some infant formulas and baby food products and many so-called 'healthier' foods such as yogurt,...
Artist's impression of stars born in winds from supermassive black holes.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Brain size in primates is predicted by diet, an analysis by a team of New York University anthropologists indicates. These results call into question "the social brain...
