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Scientists have successfully tested on mice engineered stem cells that can make and secrete toxins that can kill brain cancer cells. The stem cells are immune to the toxins, which prevent cancer cells from creating prote...

Nina Pham, a nurse once diagnosed with Ebola, has now been declared free of the disease, and released from the hospital.

Genetically engineered, toxin-packing stem cells could bring new therapies to treat brain tumors, researchers report. Stem cells could be "mini-pharmacies" inside a patient's brain, they say.

There's at least one more benefit to turning 60: you can drink alcohol every day -- just make sure to keep it moderate -- and it will benefit your memory.

A donor heart that had already stopped beating was used in a successful transplant, doctors report. The procedure could lead to an increase in the number of available donors.

A survey published this year found that over 50% of final year veterinary students in the UK do not feel confident either in discussing orodental problems with clients or in performing a detailed examination of the oral ...

A New York City doctor who recently returned from Guinea is the first in the big city to contract Ebola. The doctor is now in isolation as health officials hope to contain the virus before it spreads further.

In a randomized trial, children and young people who were given music therapy exhibited significant improvements in self-esteem and reduced depressive symptoms providing evidence that music therapy can be a viable treatm...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Scientists say they have identified in about 20 percent of colorectal and endometrial cancers a genetic mutation that had been overlooked in recent large, comprehensive gene searches. With ...

(Northwestern University) Northwestern University researchers have discovered how neurons in the brain might allow some experiences to be remembered while others are forgotten. Using a unique microscope, they peered into...

(Columbia University Medical Center) Dietary cocoa flavanols -- naturally occurring bioactives found in cocoa -- reversed age-related memory decline in healthy older adults, according to a study led by Columbia Universit...

(The JAMA Network Journals) In an analysis that included approximately 35,000 participants, genetic predisposition to elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol was associated with aortic valve calcium and narrowing of...

(Washington University School of Medicine) Digoxin, a medication used in the treatment of heart failure, may be adaptable for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive, paralyzing disease, suggests ne...

(TWAS) South African scientist named winner of The World Academy of Sciences' most prestigious award for commitment to life-saving research that protects African women from HIV/AIDS

(University of California - San Diego) Scientists have created cells with fluorescent dyes that change color in response to specific neurochemicals. By implanting these cells into living mammalian brains, they have shown...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Researchers report in the journal Nature that they have made a breakthrough in understanding how a powerful antibiotic agent is made in nature. Their discovery solves a decade...

Ashley Gardner is expecting quadruplets, two of whom needed to be saved from a rare condition that could have threatened their lives. She is carrying two sets of identical twin girls.

Kidney stones may make bone fractures more common, but who is most at risk?

The parts of your mind that concentrate and the parts that tend to wander can work together, researchers find. The result is often the quickest way to accomplish a mental task, they say.