An image of a T-cell is shown.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Robbie B. Mailliard, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
In an expanded, three-year clinical trial of 86 patients with colorectal and 11 other kinds of cancer that...
Flightless Galapagos cormorant opening its tiny wings.(Stock image)
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The flightless cormorant is one of a diverse array of animals that live on the Galapagos Islands, which piqued Charles Darwin's scientific curiosity in the 1830s. He hypothesized...
This is a computed tomography (CT scan) of right humerus. Left image shows a horizontal slice through the cancerous lesion.
Credit: Nicole Guzmán-Smith
A new report by Smithsonian archaeologists and colleagues in the International Journal of Paleopathology identifies a bone tumor...
This is the first study of its kind using medical images and artificial intelligence.
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A computer's ability to predict a patient's lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs is a step closer to becoming...
Seeing the imagination.
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Scanning your brain to decode the contents of your mind has been a subject of intense research interest for some time. As studies have progressed, scientists have gradually been able to interpret...
A system of actuation wires attached to the back of the exosuit provides assistive force to the hip joint during running.
Credit: The Wyss Institute at Harvard University
What if running the 26.2 miles of a marathon only felt like running...
The Rice Haptic Rocker uses a rotating arm to brush a soft rubber pad over the skin of the arm. The more a prosthetic hand closes, the more the pad brushes the skin.
Credit: Brandon Martin/Rice University
Engineers working to add...
Verena Schuenemann at the Palaeogenetics Laboratory, University of Tuebingen.
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An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and...
While the supposed benefits of moderate drinking have been widely reported in the media, many reports have failed to take into account other risk factors.
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The benefits of light alcohol consumption, as well as the risks...
Probiotics may relieve symptoms of depression, suggests a new study.
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Probiotics may relieve symptoms of depression, as well as help gastrointestinal upset, research from McMaster University has found.
In a study published in the medical journal Gastroenterology,...
The report found strong evidence that drinking the equivalent of a small glass of wine or beer a day (about 10 grams alcohol content) increases pre-menopausal breast cancer risk by 5 percent and post-menopausal breast cancer risk by 9...
