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(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) A research group at the MDC has discovered a protein that protects mature B lymphocytes from stress-induced cell death. It also helps immune cell...

Scientists have created a novel microbiome-based diagnostic tool that, with the accuracy of the best physicians, quickly and inexpensively identifies liver fibrosis and cirrhosis over 90 percent of the time in human pati...

Problems with brain folding are linked with neurological conditions like autism, anorexia and schizophrenia, but there are currently no ways to detect, prevent or treat misfolding. New research offers genetic insights in...

(SUNY Downstate Health Science University) Hispanic adults vary widely in their reported trust of health information sources, suggesting that information tailored to specific ethnic subgroups and targeted by age group ma...

There's good news for people with Parkinson's disease. A new study shows that deep brain stimulation may not increase the risk of developing dementia.

Scientists are whispering the secrets of a simpler way to generate the sensory cells of the inner ear. Their approach uses direct reprogramming to produce sensory cells known as 'hair cells,' due to their hair-like protr...

Scientists have used advanced technology to 'micro-dissect' the first brain cells to perish in Alzheimer's disease. The result is a short list of genes that could represent new drug targets.

Eat a slab of steak and your resident gut bacteria get to work immediately to break it down. But new research shows that a metabolic byproduct, called TMAO, produced in the process can be harmful to the lining of arterie...

(American Cancer Society) Three American Cancer Society researchers will receive the Real-World Data Impact Award to advance patient-centric research. The researchers, already funded by the ACS, will receive additional f...

Scientists have developed a method allowing for the long-term culture of 'pancreatic slices' to study the regeneration of the human pancreas in real time.

(Diabetes Research Institute Foundation) Scientists from the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have developed a method allowing for the long-term culture of 'pancreati...

Now a new study has found there is no difference in developmental and behavioral outcomes for children who have febrile seizures after vaccination, children who have febrile seizures not associated with vaccination and c...

An analysis of over 800 academic research papers on physical health and exercise suggests that the level of popular media coverage for a given paper is strongly linked to the attention it receives within the scientific c...

Medical researchers have developed a potential treatment method for Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD), a fatal neurological disorder that produces severe movement, motor and cognitive dysfunction in children. It results...

Specific sleep problems among babies and very young children can be linked to mental disorders in adolescents, a new study has found.

Researchers analyzed the epigenetic and transcriptional regulation in structural cells. They found widespread activity of immune genes, suggesting that structural cells are deeply involved in the body's response to patho...

Quantitative biologists ombine precision measurements and mathematical models to uncover a common mechanism regulating gene expression during development.

Exercise can slow or prevent the development of macular degeneration and may benefit other common causes of vision loss, such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, new research suggests.

A study of African Americans in Mississippi shows an association between experiencing discrimination over a lifetime and developing hypertension (also referred to as high blood pressure). African Americans who reported m...

(Virginia Commonwealth University) Since COVID-19's spread to the United States earlier this year, death rates in the U.S. have risen significantly. But deaths attributed to COVID-19 only account for about two-thirds of ...

(University of Tennessee Health Science Center) The University of Memphis (UofM) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) are teaming up in a venture to secure a portion of federal funding allocated ...

(NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute) NHGRI announces the provision of $75 million in funding for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Genomic Risk Assessment and Management Network, which establ...