Do student athletes financially outperform their non-athlete counterparts after they graduate from college – or do the earnings of college athletes lag behind?
“The reason this result is so significant is that we need the Hubble constant to tell us the size of the Universe, its age, and how much matter it contains,”…
Doctors have completed the first step of a unique medical research study, evaluating 1,001 individuals at risk of developing Huntington's disease who do not…
The cancer is caused by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a herpesvirus that infects more than 90 percent of Americans but is ordinarily kept under control by the…
Folate levels are different in smokers and non-smokers, according to Joel Mason, MD, director of the USDA HNRCA's Vitamins and Carcinogenesis Laboratory and…
The ability to easily make large numbers of these cells opens the door to improved treatment and a better understanding of autoimmune diseases such as type1…
Dental researchers are combining the ease of digital photography with the Internet to develop a new and inexpensive way to screen for a common childhood oral…
Results were published online today in the advanced online issue of the journal, Angiogenesis. Melanoma, colorectal and pancreatic cell lines proliferated,…
“The common thinking in the past had been that Rett syndrome only affects girls, and that the genetic flaw would be so serious in boys that they would die…
“By the time most women know they are pregnant, the development of the fetus' organs is essentially complete,” said Bryce Mendelsohn, co-author and an…
In previous studies, the UIC researchers had first identified a gene that controls anxiety and alcohol consumption.”We knew that gene, called CREB, controls…
Parkinson's disease is a debilitating neurological disease that affects about 1 million people in the United States. Little is known about its causes and hence…
The findings, reported in the August 9 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), suggest the need for a more reliable system to locate…
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) today publishes research showing that routine vaccination of infants in Kenya against H. influenzae Type…
The researchers, led by Jeffrey Tok of LLNL’s BioSecurity and Nanosciences Laboratory, built submicrometer layers of different metals including gold, silver…
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have helped develop a technique in animal models for using the abdominal cavity to exchange…