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Studies show little evidence that eating a morning meal helps us lose weight.

Tiny pores in heart cells generate electrical signals to initiate each heart beat. Structural studies of these channels provide details on their functions, and also on their malfunction due to different inherited mutatio...

Drug discovery researchers have created a new framework for mining data for training machine learning models.

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Tiny solutions are being sought for big liver problems by a scientist at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealt...

(Forschungsverbund Berlin) The reproduction of lynxes is highly mysterious. Unlike other wild cats, most lynxes are only receptive for a few days once a year. The Berlin team has now achieved another breakthrough in solv...

(Penn State) Penn State researchers in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering received a $400,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for ...

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) A collaborative study led by researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix and Rice University found that freestanding emergency departments can increase o...

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Estimates based on genomic data predict stroke risk with an accuracy similar to, or greater than those based on clinical risk factors. This result implies that persons at high r...

(University of Bern) Why do we move our eyes fast in the paradoxical sleep -- in that sleep phase, in which most dreams take place? The secret is not yet fully aired, but we are on his track: A team at the University of ...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study shows that among a set of disadvantaged women, Medicaid managed care reduces the women's access to high-quality hospital services during pregnancy and deliver...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Patients who were transplanted with hearts from hepatitis C-positive donors had comparable outcomes after one year to patients who received hearts from donors that didn't have the d...

(University of Southampton) Researchers have gained new insight into the mechanisms involved in how skeletal muscles lose their mass and strength as people age, called sarcopenia.

(Taylor & Francis Group) The proportion of high-strength painkiller poisonings among children which result in emergency hospital admissions has increased, according to research published in the peer-reviewed journal Clin...

(University of Alberta) New research from University of Alberta neuroscientists shows that the brains of adolescents struggling with mental-health issues may be wired differently from those of their healthy peers.

(The Obesity Society ) A new analysis suggests that the increasing average body size of people on Earth, in addition to the growing world population may further challenge attempts to reduce man-made carbon dioxide emissi...

(University of Texas at Austin) A mother's obesity in pregnancy can affect her child's development years down the road, according to researchers who found impaired motor skills in preschoolers and lower IQ in middle chil...

(Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute ) Researchers have shown that genetic data obtained from a single blood draw or saliva sample can be used to identify individuals at a 3-fold increased risk of developing ischaemic str...

(George Mason University) In collaboration with Dr. S. Abbas Shobeiri, Vice Chair, Gynecologic Subspecialties, INOVA Women's Hospital, Parag Chitnis, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering; Qi Wei, Associate Professor, Bioe...

(George Mason University) Rebecca Sutter, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, is set to receive $75,000 from Potomac Health Foundation.

(University of Nottingham) New research from experts at the University of Nottingham could lead to an improved vaccine to protect against the bacterium, Neisseria meningitides that causes sepsis and meningitis.