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Depression is on the rise in U.S. teens, a new study finds.

The first industry trials are planned for the Exergyn Drive, which generates power from hot water and could reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions

(University of Oregon) Just as a boat can be driven off course by a log in its path, a single, random mutation can send life in a new direction. That scenario, says University of Oregon biochemist Ken Prehoda, illustrate...

Exactly how heart cells follow their genetic programming to create an intricate, life-sustaining pump remains something of a mystery. A new study, however, is beginning to shed some light on this issue.

(University of Gothenburg) What do fire flies, Huygens's wall clocks, and even the heart of choir singers, have in common? They can all synchronize their respective individual signals into one single unison tone or rhyth...

Simulations of quarks and gluons show strange spinning twisters and spokes.

Despite gains made after Obamacare, the US still ranks at the bottom for many measures of health and access to medical care when compared with 10 similar countries

Muscular dystrophies, congenital heart muscle defects, and other muscle disorders often arise for reasons that scientists don't fully understand. Now researchers have discovered that alternative splicing could play an im...

A new biomaterial is under development that has potential to protect patients at high risk for bleeding in surgery, report researchers.

In new findings that could have an impact on the development of therapies for a number of currently untreatable brain disorders such as Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, scientists have found, for the first time, th...

A virus that causes childhood coughs and colds could help in the fight against primary liver cancer, according to a study. Reovirus stimulates the body's own immune system to kill off the cancerous cells, the researchers...

Analysis of wear patterns on fossil teeth from East African hominins suggests the diets of Paranthropus aethiopicus and Paranthropus boisei were softer than had been thought, according to a study.

Imagine swallowing a pill today that continues releasing the daily dose of a medicine you need for the next week, month or even longer. Investigators have developed a long-acting drug delivery capsule that may help to do...

Researchers have developed a tiny, soft and wearable acoustic sensor that measures vibrations in the human body, allowing them to monitor human heart health and recognize spoken words.

Scientists have developed a gel for growing miniaturized body organs that can be used in clinical diagnostics and drug development. Organoids are miniature organs that can be grown in the lab from a person's stem cells. ...

KILLING mosquitoes of the genusAnopheles, the sort that transmit malaria, is a serious business--so serious that some doctors would like to do it by using people as bait. Their idea is to dose those in malarious areas wi...

Some workers at industrial hog production facilities are not only carrying livestock-associated, antibiotic-resistant bacteria in their noses, but may also be developing skin infections from these bacteria, new research ...

A new sensor-packed patch that sticks to the skin could monitor heart murmurs and failing implants - and even be used to control drones and video games.

New research on the brains of individuals 90 years and older who had superior memories until their deaths revealed widespread and dense Alzheimer's plaques and tangles in some cases, considered full-blown Alzheimer's pat...

Organisms are in a constant battle against viruses that invade their genomes. Among their most effective weapons are silencing pathways that use small RNAs to selectively target invading nucleic acids for their destructi...

A new study describes an unexpected role for proteins involved with our daily "circadian" clocks in influencing cancer growth.

A newer generation left ventricular assist device (LVAD) provides better outcomes for patients with advanced heart failure at six months compared to its predecessor, according to a new study.