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Nonprofit group OpenBiome wants your poop. Healthy fecal matter can be used to treat people suffering from a debilitating and sometimes fatal intestinal bacteria, group says.

College student with confirmed case of measles was contagious during train journey in New York, officials say. Anyone who took that train journey warned to be on lookout of symptoms.

Hollywood film shines light on rare form of Alzheimer's disease. Early-onset form of the disease strikes people in their 40s or 50s and can have devastating effects on families.

A 4-year old dog had to undergo a surgery after it ate a pair of calf-high boots. Veterinarians said that foreign materials consumed by dogs can obstruct their digestive track, perforate their intestines and even cause d...

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) A new research report appearing in the Feb. 2015 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology solves this mystery by showing that HIV relies on proteins expressed ...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A new study is the first to show that the treatment of insomnia in veterans is associated with a significant reduction in suicidal ideation.

(The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth) In the search for new approaches to treat ERBB2 -- also known as HER2 -- positive breast cancers that have become drug-resistant, Dartmouth investigator Manabu Kurokawa, Ph.D....

(IOS Press) A new study by researchers at the Universities of Montana, Carleton, and North Carolina, and the Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, heightens concerns over the det...

(National Sleep Foundation) The National Sleep Foundation, along with a multi-disciplinary expert panel, issued its new recommendations for appropriate sleep durations. The NSF convened experts from sleep, anatomy and ph...

(Northwestern University) Northwestern University researchers have genetically modified yeast to prevent it from metabolizing protein, leading to higher yields of an industrially useful product.

(University of Kentucky) Mechanical assisted circulation is the most rapidly developing area of cardiology, but until now, there was no journal dedicated to papers in this area.

(Indiana University) An Indiana University Media School professor's new book brings readers face-to-face with the unavoidable truth that the population is going to have to work longer as life expectancy improves, and com...

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Su-Chun Zhang, a professor of neuroscience and neurology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Center, and his research team have published a unique model for learning more abou...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Pancreatic cancer affects approximately 46,000 people each year in the United States and ranks fourth among the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. Only about 6 pe...

(Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care) Scientists have found some of the strongest evidence yet that musical training in younger years can prevent the decay in speech listening skills in later life.

(American Society for Nutrition) The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) will hold its 79th Scientific Sessions and Annual Meeting at Experimental Biologyfrom March 28-April 1 in Boston, Mass. ASN's program offers in-de...

(The Hastings Center) For two years, a debate has raged over the study known as the Surfactant, Positive Pressure, and Oxygenation Randomized Trial (SUPPORT), which sought to gauge the risks and benefits of different blo...

(University of Maryland) UMD geneticist Antony Jose and two of his graduate students are the first to figure out a specific mechanism by which a parent can pass silenced genes to its offspring. Importantly, the team foun...

(IOS Press) Our new paper published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease provides evidence that cooking foods at high temperatures increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease. This study looked at the content of advanced ...

(Georgia State University) Big-box retailers Costco, Sam's Club, BJ's Wholesale and Walmart, along with full-service and fast-food restaurants, are key contributors to the nation's obesity epidemic, according to research...

(Wiley) Mercury contamination of ocean fish is a serious global health issue, and a new analysis of published reports reveals that the concentration of mercury in yellowfin tuna caught near Hawai'i is increasing at a rat...

(Elsevier) A recent study published in the Feb. 2015 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry demonstrates that children who were abandoned to institutional care have an increased r...