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(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) While the majority of parents give their child's sports organization high marks for communication about safety protocols, one in four rate their sports league as fair or poor ...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a series of experiments that began with amoebas -- single-celled organisms that extend podlike appendages to move around -- Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have identified a genetic...

Promising new research may soon help treat, and one day cure, the chronic disease.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A chemical modification of RNA that can be influenced by diet appears to play a key role in polycystic kidney disease, an inherited disorder that is the fourth leading cause of kidney fai...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers have developed a novel mouse model that reproduces many key features of human non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a little-understood condition that significantly increases...

(McMaster University) Researchers conducted telephone interviews with the doctors between January and October 2019 and published their findings in the Canadian Medical Association Journal Open.

(eLife ) A gene therapy protects eye cells in mice with a rare disorder that causes vision loss, especially when used in combination with other gene therapies, shows a study published today in eLife.

(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) New research shows that while cannabis users had higher rates of psychotic experiences than non-users across the board, the difference was especially pronounced among those with h...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Children who regularly snore have structural changes in their brain that may account for the behavioral problems associated with the condition including lack of focus, hyperact...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Many people who have COVID-19 make a full recovery and return to their baseline state of health; however, some people have symptoms or other sequelae weeks or m...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A clinical trial testing the safety and efficacy of an investigational monoclonal antibody for treating people who are hospitalized with respiratory disease and...

(Iowa State University) As public health agencies ramp up efforts to educate people about the COVID-19 vaccines, narratives can be a powerful tool. In a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien...

(Walter Reed Army Institute of Research) WRAIR scientists demonstrated the potential of a novel blood test for cathepsin B as an indicator for a range of disease states in blood. While high levels of cathepsin B are read...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers have shown that psilocybin--the active chemical in "magic mushrooms"-- still works its antidepressant-like actions...

(University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center) In a new study, published online today in Cell, researchers have discovered a new way to prevent brain nerve cells from deteriorating after injury, which also revealed a po...

(eLife ) Researchers have identified molecular signatures of the aging process in mice.

(North Carolina State University) Researchers have fine-tuned the molecular assembly line that creates antibiotics via engineered biosynthesis.

(Lehigh University) For the first time, an epidemiological study, led by Lehigh University's Hyunok Choi, has shown that not only is non-Th2 a distinct asthma disease, its likely inducer is early childhood exposure to ai...

(Shinshu University) Diapause is a phenomenon in which animals and insects foresee changes in the environment and actively reduce metabolism, or halt regular differentiation and development. By knocking out genes that al...

(NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse) A large study of children has uncovered evidence that behavioral problems in children who snore may be associated with changes in the structure of their brain's frontal lobe. The fi...

(Niigata University) Recent advances in tissue-clearing-based 3D imaging have permitted researchers to establish a new baseline 3D structure of the endometrial glands, including the formation of a rhizome network in the ...

(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) New data published by researchers at The OSUCCC - James suggests that an oral drug currently used in the clinical setting to treat neuromuscular diseases could also help prev...