Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis used rats to validate a “cold shielding” effect of blood flow that they previously…
The investigators found that meth increases expression of a receptor called DC-SIGN, a “virus-attachment factor,” allowing more of the virus to invade the…
Robert Ménard, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international research scholar, and his postdoctoral fellow, Rogerio Amino, at the Institut Pasteur in…
Under some conditions this energy-hungry organ is prone to defects in its energy metabolism that contribute to heart disease, according to research published…
Medicine can now prevent a host of diseases with a mere shot of vaccine. Polio and smallpox are almost non-existent, and mumps and chicken pox are rarely seen…
The authors also examined whether certain chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, played a role in…
Twenty of the world’s leading marine scientists, including a team from the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, have called for action by…
Scientists from the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (BIMR) and Illumina Inc., in collaboration with stem cell researchers around the world, have found…
The researchers hope these findings will one day lead to milk that protects infants and children against diarrheal illnesses, which each year kill more than 2…
A current trend in cardiac surgical practice is to work with an actively beating heart, rather than the more usual suppression of heart activity by low…
Chronic exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke causes some children and adolescents to go on to develop serious chest problems like asthma, while others do not…
While traffic problems in major cities have been familiar for a long time, the measures needed to deal with them have still to be put into effect. However, in…
Astronomers will look at how the Sun and other stars vibrate like enormous musical instruments at an international conference in Sheffield next week (7-11…
Professor Paul Longley and his colleagues have assembled a range of private and public sector data sources to investigate three things: how we access new…
The Scottish Council on Human Bioethics has just published a new report on the ethical implications of creating embryonic and fetal animal-human mixtures in…
Dr Andrew Watts from the University of Bath (UK) and Dr Jennifer McKimm-Breschkin from CSIRO (Australia) have been awarded over £408,000 from the Medical…
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