An international collaboration of scientists from the Yale School of Medicine and Turkey may have discovered humanity's beneficiary – a tiny variation within a…
Major depression affects approximately 20 percent of people at some point during their lives, and family studies have long suggested that depression risk is…
For example, in type I diabetes, hyperglycemia commonly develops when approximately 80 percent of the beta cells in the pancreas are lost; in Parkinson's…
Evolutionary biologists have long debated whether the behavior of the individual is able to influence processes on a population or species level. The…
'The animals are very delicate. They wouldn't survive a fall from any height,' explains Claire Rind from the University of Newcastle, UK. In 2006, Stanislav…
AML, the most common form of acute leukemia seen in adults, is an aggressive form of cancer that primarily affects the elderly. Despite years of research,…
This is the first known study to examine the relationship between school victimization during adolescence – specifically related to sexual orientation and…
The most lethal and sudden cardiovascular event can be the toughest for doctors to diagnose.But a study by the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center…
Researchers at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Bernstein Center Berlin, the NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence and the Otto-von-Guericke University of…
Although both photosynthesis and photovoltaics harvest energy from the sun, they operate in distinctly different ways producing different fuels. It is not a…
They may be uncomfortable talking about it, but it's definitely going on. A recent survey, led by McGill Psychiatry Professor and Senior Lady Davis Institute…
A rapid pain response to extreme temperatures is of vital importance to prevent being burned by touching a hot object or accidentally swallowing scolding soup,…
The findings could lead to a blood test for lung cancer, according to a researcher with the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James…
Engineers investigating “listener fatigue”– the discomfort and pain some people experience while using in-ear headphones, hearing aids, and other devices that…
Dynamic chest compression occurs during spinal manipulation. While dynamic chest compression has been well studied in events such as motor vehicle collisions,…
Routine monitoring of these protein levels following nonemergent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) could improve long-term outcomes for these patients….