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A woman initially diagnosed with the flu contracted a rare flesh-eating disease called necrotizing fasciitis. Here's what you need to know about this rare bacterial infection.

The world recently welcomed a pair of monkeys that were created using the same method used to clone Dolly the sheep. In a study published Wednesday in Cell, researchers successfully produced two genetically identical, lo...

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News The system includes software that allows users to describe, at a high level of generality, the experiments they wish to conduct ... Contributed Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

News Scientists are developing systems that mimic tissues and organ functions in conditions very close to reality ... Contributed Author: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

News The researchers tested their imaging approach in tissue samples from mice ... Contributed Author: The Optical Society Topics: Cardiovascular

News To understand how cellular migration alters in cancer or other illnesses, or how a metastasis originates ... Contributed Author: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

A NAS report that looked into the impact of e-cigarettes on public health found that the vaping devices are either harmful or beneficial depending on the user's age. At what age is using e-cigarettes a bad idea?

Curcumin, an ingredient found in Indian curry, were linked to improvements in memory and mood of participants in an 18-month study. Those who consumed curcumin also showed less signals of tau and amyloid, proteins associ...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Does your cat lay around all day, only getting up to eat and visit the litter box? Chances are, he's overweight. Maybe you've switched...

(Florida State University) The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2 million grant to Florida State University to test two new nonmedication treatments for children with ADHD.

(Children's National Health System) 'By treating all bronchiolitis patients with a single agent, we could be comparing apples with oranges,' says Robert J. Freishtat, M.D., M.P.H., chief of emergency medicine at Children...

(American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology) A position paper by the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology provides guidance to allergists interested in providing telemedicine care to their patients...

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Scientists led by EPFL have isolated leprosy bacteria directly from human samples, and analyzed the purified genomes to identify mutations that confer drug resistance to the b...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a link between genetic molecules in mosquitos and dengue fever. The results of the study, conducted by Susanta K. Behura and his coll...

(Singapore University of Technology and Design) A Singapore-India collaborative research project between the Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD) and CSIR-National Chemical Laboratories (NCL) completed phen...

(American Heart Association) A new guideline for treating acute ischemic stroke recommends an increased treatment window for mechanical clot removal from six hours to up to 24 hours in certain patients with clots in larg...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) NIH has launched a large international study to compare the safety and efficacy of three antiretroviral treatment regimens for pregnant women living with HIV an...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center scientists next month will begin testing a digital nanosensor that lights up cancer tissue to see whether it can improve the accuracy of cancer surge...

(John Innes Centre) A new scheme to support postgraduate students from developing countries is announced today by the John Innes Centre.

(Medical University of South Carolina) A Medical University of South Carolina study found that use of a mechanical initial specimen diversion device (ISDD®) and staff education led to a nearly four-fold decrease in cont...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The Penn Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease has received a $5 million commitment from Mark Winkelman and his family. The generous donation from Winkelman, a former...