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Health researchers are investigating whether the enterovirus-68 respiratory disease that's been seen in especially high rates this year is related to a neurological condition that causes limb weakness and paralysis. In a...

An evolutionary arms race between rival elements within the genomes of primates drove the evolution of complex regulatory networks that orchestrate the activity of genes in every cell of our bodies, researach shows. The ...

A sign of the early development of pancreatic cancer -- an upsurge in certain amino acids that occurs before the disease is diagnosed and symptoms appear -- has been identified by a team of researchers. Although the incr...

Jason Silva calls technologies of media "engines of empathy." They allow us to look through someone else's eyes, experience someone else's story--and develop a sense of compassion and understanding for them, and perhaps ...

For patients with cervical cancer that has recurred after treatment or has spread elsewhere in the body, adding the experimental drug cediranib to standard chemotherapy improves tumor shrinkage and adds a modest improvem...

Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer that has spread to other parts of their body live around 16 months longer if treated with a combination of pertuzumab, trastuzumab and chemotherapy compared to those treated with...

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