Depression can heighten the risk for heart disease, but the effect of antidepressant use revealed by the study is separate and independent from depression…
Trypanosomatid parasites cause diseases like African sleeping sickness, Chagas’ disease and leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis affects about 12 million people…
WHAT: A special media phone briefing with leading infectious disease scientists and healthcare-associated infection experts who will headline the 2011 Society…
The findings are published in Cancer Discovery, the newest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, debuting here at the AACR 102nd Annual…
Previous epidemiologic studies have shown an association between diabetes and an increased risk for cancers including colorectal, liver and pancreas, according…
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, demonstrated that the level of macrophages and CD8+ T-cells, two key components of the human immune…
“Epidemiologists and basic scientists often do not understand each other, as we often are only clear on our own strengths and the other's weaknesses,” said…
The discovery by two Penn State University researchers is a new type of symmetry in the structure of materials, which the researchers say greatly expands the…
Tiny particles only billionths of a meter in diameter—about two thousand would fit across the width of a human hair—could offer big hope in a small package to…
In the constantly morphing field of protein structure, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute offer yet another surprise: a common “chaperone” protein in…
Led by mechanical science and engineering professor William King and electrical and computer engineering professor Eric Pop, the team will publish its findings…
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have developed a new way to stimulate neuron production in the adult mouse brain, demonstrating that neurons…
Moreover, the UCSF team showed that they could use drugs to alter this immune profile in mice. Giving these drugs to mice, in combination with chemotherapy,…
Adult mice engineered to have more newborn neurons in their brain memory hub excelled at accurately discriminating between similar experiences – an ability…
The results add to evidence that lack of vitamin D can lead to impaired vascular health, contributing to high blood pressure and the risk of cardiovascular…
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