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A previous history of cancer doesn't necessarily preclude treatment with antibodies against tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) for patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, suggests a new study.

New research demonstrates that experts can use data from air sampling technology to not only detect radiological releases, but to accurately quantify the magnitude and source of the release. This has applications for nuc...

Men with slow-growing prostate cancer are increasingly avoiding unnecessary and potentially harmful treatment in favor of an approach called active surveillance -- monitoring the cancer with regular tests and treating it...

Acoustic-gravity waves are very long sound waves that cut through the deep ocean at the speed of sound. These lightning-quick currents can sweep up water, nutrients, salts, and any other particles in their wake, at any w...

Researchers have created a hydrogel scaffold that replicates the environment found within the human breast. The scaffold supports the growth of human mammary tissue from patient-derived cells and can be used to study nor...

How do privacy concerns affect how health data is shared? Research explores privacy laws and their effect on health information exchanges in the United States.

New articles developed in silico models for the estimation of potential mutagenicity of chemicals from their structure without the input of any other experimental data.

A cell membrane transporter -- CarT -- maintains vision in the fruit fly Drosophila by recycling the neurotransmitter histamine in the brain, scientists have discovered.

A tumor's immune response to a single dose of the HER2 inhibitor trastuzumab predicted which patients with HER2-positive breast cancer would respond to the drug on a more long-term basis, according to the results of a ne...

Stable environments like constant predator threats, not unstable conditions, generate the non-genetic behavioral changes known as 'transgenerational response' in the next generation, researchers have discovered for the f...

A set of 520-million year old fossils has a nervous system more complex than that evolved by their modern successors

A parasitic worm infection can lead to some pretty unusual effects, a new case report reveals.

Scientists have for the first time developed a way to predict how a specific type of stem cell will act against different diseases.

Wealthier seniors in Ontario were prescribed a new blood thinner for a common heart rhythm abnormality 1.5 times more often than poorer seniors when the drug was first approved by Health Canada, a new study has found.

Medical implants and spacecraft can suddenly go dead, often for the same reason: cracks in ceramic capacitors, devices that store electric charge in electronic circuits. These cracks, at first harmless and often hidden, ...

Metabolic phenotyping of blood plasma by proton nuclear magnetic resonance identified unique metabolic biomarkers specific to lung cancer patients and allowed for the accurate identification of a cohort of patients with ...

Growing up in poverty or being abused by parents can lead to accumulated health problems later in life, according to new research.

A new discovery suggests that a genetic predisposition to cancer preceded the advent of modernization -- and, in a bizarre twist, they discovered this evidence in an 18th-century Hungarian mummy.

After just 150 years, stickleback fish in Switzerland have started to split into two different species, despite living in the same lake and interbreeding

Fitbit, the popular physical activity monitoring device, is a valid and reliable way of monitoring physical activity, finds a new study.

The number of older people in England living with more than one chronic condition could have risen by 10 percent in the last decade putting increasing pressure on the NHS, new research has suggested.

The legendary work ethic of East Asian students may have driven them to the top of the standardized test leaderboard, but researchers found that adolescents who sleep five hours a night for a week experience significant ...