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Lose some sleep over the weekend, and you're likely to come into work Monday feeling a little off. Whether that's zoning out in a meeting, missing typos in an email or something more dangerous like drifting off at the wh...

News Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have peered deep into the heart of a key protein used in drug design and discovered dynamic structural features that may lead to new ways to target diseases. The p...

Michael Bisping has fought professionally in mixed martial arts since 2004. Last year, the journeyman won his first title. He knocked out Luke Rockhold in the first round to win the middleweight belt in the Ultimate Figh...

News UC San Francisco researchers are patterning mechanically active mouse or human cells to thin layers of extracellular matrix fibers to create.... Contributed Author: Cell Press Topics: Regenerative Medicine

(PLOS) Uganda is among the countries is sub-Saharan Africa where cholera remains a recurring problem, despite advances in science and technology for prevention, detection and treatment of the infectious disease. Now, res...

(Kumamoto University) Japanese researchers revealed that abnormal delivery of zinc to lung cells contributes to obstructive pulmonary diseases. They further showed that mRNA splicing abnormalities are involved in the det...

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) In search of new strategies against life-threatening tuberculosis infections, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), as well as Harvard University and Texas A&M Unive...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Through gene therapy, researchers engineered blood-forming stem cells (hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, or HSPCs) to carry chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) gene...

(JAMA Network) Most ophthalmologists in a survey reported using electronic health records (EHRs) but thought that EHR use decreased their productivity.

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Nucleic acid sequencing methods, which determine the order of nucleotides in DNA, are rapidly progressing. These processes yield large quantities of sequence data that hel...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a study of medical records gathered on hundreds of thousands of African-American women, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have evidence that women with a common form of hair loss have an incr...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggest that using topiramate in early pregnancy, particularly at the high d...

(University of California - Los Angeles) A study reveals the cellular basis for how the hormone protects against damage to the central nervous system.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Antibiotics could become nearly useless by mid-century against intense infections due to bacteria evolving antibiotic resistance. And alternative treatments haven't been able to replace ...

(Cell Press) To measure a person's sleep, researchers have relied on costly and time-consuming approaches that could only be used in a sleep lab. But now researchers reporting in Current Biology have found a way to captu...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Tumor cells use the unfolded protein response to alter circadian rhythm, which contributes to more tumor growth, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) find....

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Research led by Ludwine Messiaen shows that missense mutations in a cluster of just five codons in the NF1 gene are an important risk factor for severe symptoms of the genetic diseas...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib has taken on an increasing role in the treatment of multiple myeloma, but new research from the Abramson Cancer Center of the Universit...