In response to Illinois Department of Public Health reports of rising rates of C. difficile infection as a hospital discharge diagnosis, the Chicago and Cook…
A computerized epidemiological model of the spread of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in 17 counties of California in 2005 successfully predicted where 81.6…
After a heart attack or stroke, heart scarring can lead to dangerously paper-thin heart walls and a decreased ability to pump blood through the body. Although…
Researchers at Ohio State University are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the project, in the hopes of targeting…
Researchers at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) have designed, built and validated a novel hyperbaric environment to study cellular behavior at greater…
Being physically active is one of best ways people with arthritis can improve their health, but a new study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of…
The research, involving an international team of investigators led by the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and funded by the Wellcome Trust, was published…
Do you run when you should stay? Are you afraid of all the wrong things? An enzyme deficiency might be to blame, reveals new research in mice by scientists at…
Prima BioMed Ltd. is developing an autologous (the body's own) immune therapy for the treatment of epithelial ovarian carcinoma (ovarian cancer). Before the…
In the study, CU-Boulder Research Associate Ruth Barrientos and her colleagues showed that aging rats that ran just over half a kilometer each week were…
“This research gives us hints to looping morphogenesis, how organs form from a single tube to the rotating structure of intestines,” said Natasza Kurpios,…
As the rate of thyroid cancer continues to climb, doctors are urging patients to be more cautious about thyroid nodules, a common disorder that is responsible…
“In essence, we have built a replacement sphincter that we hope can one day benefit human patients. This is the first bioengineered sphincter made with both…
Flax has been part of human history for well over 30,000 years, used for weaving cloth, feeding people and animals, and even making paint. Now, researchers…
In what represents an important step toward curing HIV, a USC scientist has created a virus that hunts down HIV-infected cells.Dr. Pin Wang's lentiviral vector…
Their findings, reported online in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal unique interactions between biological molecules that…
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