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When did social media become a stage for blasting photo after photo of your own face? I know I sound all Clint Eastwood "Get Off My Lawn" right now, but I can't count how many times I've clicked into someone's Instag...

(International & American Associations for Dental Research) The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) have just released the inaugural issue of the JDR Clinical & Translational Research.

Researchers have developed a novel implantable material which could reduce the number of debilitating side-effects that occur as a result of using a material that is too rigid for surgical treatment of incontinence.

Since measles was declared eliminated in 2000, over half of its cases reported in the U.S. were for those without history of measles vaccination. Experts believe a majority of cases in measles and pertussis outbreaks wer...

For the first time, researchers have linked psoriasis to the risk of widespread bone loss and describe how the protein IL-17 acts as a 'messenger' between the skin and the bones. IL-17 inhibitors, some of which already o...

Watchmaker Nixon has announced its first Android Wear-based product, the Misssion. The rugged smartwatch is water resistant up to 100 meters or 10 ATM, and is built to withstand the elements. The Mission was built with s...

In its back-and-forth legal wrangling with the FBI over a killer's locked iPhone, Apple got a final word in Tuesday -- arguing again in court papers that forcing the company to help federal officials access the phone wou...

Justice department filing accuses Apple of making "accommodations" to gain access to the giant Chinese market.

Light stimulation of brain cells can recover memories in mice with Alzheimer's disease-like memory loss, according to new research from the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics. The rescue of memories, which chan...

Researchers injected participants with an experimental vaccine for the dengue virus, finding that it was 100 percent effective.

Experimental evolution of c. elegans proves deterministic maternal effects can give offspring a head start in life.

Researchers help explain the origins of acute kidney injury and suggest that manipulation of the NAD aging molecule might help prevent loss of kidney function and subsequent complications.

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) infects liver cells. Drugs are available to treat HBV, but they rarely cure the infection, and so the virus typically returns after the treatment ends. Scientists have now discovered how our c...

A clinical trial in which volunteers were infected with dengue virus six months after receiving either an experimental dengue vaccine or a placebo injection yielded starkly contrasting results. All 21 volunteers who rece...

New research finds improvement in overall survival rates among men with aggressive prostate cancer who were treated with radiation at a facility that frequently performs that treatment.

Scientists have succeeded in generating a new type of embryonic stem cell that carries a single copy of the human genome, instead of the two copies typically found in normal stem cells. These are the first human cells th...

Light stimulation of brain cells can recover memories in mice with Alzheimer's disease-like memory loss, according to new research. The rescue of memories, which changed both the structure of neurons as well as the behav...

14 Zika outbreak in French Polynesia, further supports the association between Zika virus and microcephaly. The study, published today in The Lancet, estimates that the risk of microcephaly is about 1 for every 100 women...

Following spinal cord injury, most patients experience an exaggeration of muscle tone called spasticity, which frequently leads to physical disability. A team has just identified one of the molecular mechanisms responsib...

Trained technician screeners with assisted computer-aided nodule detection or computer vision screening workstations can efficiently and accurately review and triage abnormal low-dose computed topography scans for radiol...

Researchers are developing a necklace that tracks what we eat via microphone and a mobile app.

Human use of copper dating back to the Bronze Age has shaped the evolution of bacteria, leading to bugs that are highly resistant to the metal's antibacterial properties.