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Treating a peanut allergy with oral immunotherapy changes the DNA of the patient's immune cells, according to a new study. The DNA change could serve as the basis for a simple blood test to monitor the long-term effectiv...

Researchers have shown that retrieval practice can improve memory in individuals with severe traumatic brain injury. Despite the small sample size, it was clear that retrieval practice was superior to other learning stra...

The metabolic cost of 10 gardening tasks was measured in children to determine associated exercise intensities. The children performed the tasks while wearing a portable telemetric calorimeter and a heart rate monitor to...

A new report from the American Cancer Society outlines progress made and challenges that remain in fighting childhood cancer.

New research finds that the brains of autistic children generate more information at rest - a 42% increase on average.

Researchers have developed a protocol that permits cells harvested from melanoma tumors in mice to grow readily in cell culture.

It has been twenty years since federal law made Nutrition Facts a required part of food packages. The Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for the design and content of Nutrition Facts, says knowledge about...

Biologists identify a drug that can help wipe out reservoirs of cancer cells in bone marrow.

Discussing five movies about relationships over a month could cut the three-year divorce rate for newlyweds in half, researchers report. The study, involving 174 couples, is the first long-term investigation to compare d...

Researchers have discovered an amino acid signal essential for error-free cell division. This signal regulates the number of centrosomes in the cell, and its absence results in the development of pathologically altered c...

While total joint surgeries have a low risk of infection -- between 1 and 3 percent -- in those rare instances when bone infection sets in, it can be a devastating setback for patients. Researchers have evaluated an appl...

Researchers have found that a combination of two already-in-use drugs may have an effect on stopping the growth of the most common genetic subtype of lung cancer setting the stage for clinical trials.

Researchers have found there is no benefit in replacing fructose, the sugar most commonly blamed for obesity, with glucose in commercially prepared foods.

Researchers have just uncovered one of the major genes responsible for female differentiation: FOXL2. Not only does this gene activate differentiation in the ovary, but it also blocks the expression of male genes within ...

Researchers have captured high-resolution, 3D images of HIV virus lurking in the intestines of mice with "humanised" immune systems     

Every 45 minutes, a child is brought to emergency room in the United States after television tip-over, and about every three weeks, one of those children dies. To prevent TV-related injuries, Feb. 1 was declared National...

What is this ominous dark stain, captured in a satellite photo, stretching nearly 800 kilometres along Brazil's coast to São Paulo?     

This week in science, we learned about how climate change is endangering baby penguins, took a peek at some of the science behind the savage ballet of football, and found out that lingering traces of the banned pesticide...

Americans facing worsening natural disasters are showing signs of increased mental anguish, say psychologists.

Call it "love at first sniff." In animals and humans, scent plays a bigger role in romance than you might think. Take the Coquerel's sifaka, a type of lemur. New research published in the journal Animal Behavior shows th...

Volunteers track shifts in temperature with their homemade rinks.

This amazing space wallpaper of the star formation region NGC 6334 is one of the first scientific images from the ArTeMiS instrument on APEX.