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New research has shown that the common blood pressure drug verapamil completely reverses diabetes in animal models. Now, thanks to a three-year, $2.1 million grant, researchers will begin conducting a potentially groundb...

El Niño conditions continue to sputter in the tropical Pacific Ocean, pushing back the odds of even a weak El Niño emerging this winter, forecasters said today (Nov. 6).

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A new report of the some of the earliest cases of Ebola in the West African outbreak may hold clues to helping more patients survive.

The location of oral cancers differed in smokers and nonsmokers with nonsmokers having a higher proportion of cancers occur on the edge of the tongue, according to a study.

There is a surprising genetic unity between the earliest known Europeans and contemporary Europeans, ancient DNA reveals. This finding suggests that a complex network of sexual exchange may have existed across Europe ove...

Olaparib, an experimental twice-daily oral cancer drug, produces an overall tumor response rate of 26 percent in several advanced cancers associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, according to new research. The positive...

Pain is a common symptom of cancer and side effect of cancer treatment, and treating cancer-related pain is often a challenge for health care providers. Researchers found that integrative medicine therapies can substanti...

A cellular culprit has been identified by researchers that should help to better understand how metastasis begins. Their findings may also inform the design of new treatments to combat it, they add.

Think you can dissolve a body in an acid bath, Breaking Bad-style, and get away with it? Think again, says forensic scientist Erwin Vermeij (full text available to subscribers)

Just like Navy engineers who jam the sonar of enemy ships, bats can jam the signals of other bats to ward off competition for food, a new study finds.

Mexican free-tailed bats use echolocation to hunt, but they also emit jamming signals to fend off competitors. Mexican free-tailed bats use echolocation to hunt, but they also emit jamming signals to fend off competitors...

Inappropriate, disruptive, or hostile behavior between nursing home residents is a sizable and growing problem, according to new research. Over the past two decades, researchers, policymakers, and the public have become ...

A major breakthrough in the development of stem cell-derived brain cells has put researchers on a firm path towards the first ever stem cell transplantations in people with Parkinson's disease. A new study presents the n...

One way to solve problems of synthesis of natural compounds is to figure out how an organism solves the problem itself, and then modify it for a particular use, experts say. "In terms of drug discovery, there remains a l...

In Tennessee, the introduction in 2010 of a new pneumococcal vaccine for infants and young children coincides with a 27 percent decline in pneumonia hospital admissions across the state among children under age two, rese...

The number of tobacco shops in an area could affect teenagers' smoking habits, according to recent research from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Teens who live close to several tobacco shops are nearly 50 percen...

Ebola transmission in the three West African countries fighting the outbreak remains "persistent and widespread," the World Health Organization said Wednesday, and the United Nations is struggling to come up with the res...

Ebola nurse Amber Vinson said she received the federal government's permission to travel by plane after treating Thomas Duncan, the Liberian national who died of Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas last...

An orphaned sea otter pup, just a week old and underweight, was rescued from a beach in California last month. Now, the camera-friendly creature is starting over in the Midwest, with 24-hour care at Chicago's Shedd Aquar...

The seemingly simple process of phase changes--those transitions between states of matter--is more complex than previously known, according to research based at Princeton University, Peking University and New York Univer...

The Mexican free-tailed bat sabotages the echolocation signals of its fellows so that it can home in on their winged prey for itself