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In a new study, Tinder users had lower levels of self-esteem and more body dissatisfaction than people who didn't use the dating app.

My recent trip to Beijing and Shanghai has me convinced China is the next technological superpower. This blog lays out the data so you can make your own judgment. China is the world's second-largest economy with a GDP of...

Scientists have revealed, for the first time, a method to reprogram specific T cells. More precisely, they discovered how to turn pro-inflammatory cells that boost the immune system into anti-inflammatory cells that supp...

A new advance now offers the ability to construct vascularized tissue and mimic in vivo drug administration in 3-D bioprinted liver tissue. Scientists developed this relatively simple liver model to offer a more accurate...

When does a person receive too much health information? What's the best way for health providers to convey information without consumers skipping over or forgetting key information? According to a new study, the answer l...

Young black women are more likely to have a type of breast cancer that does not express any of the receptors for targeted biologic therapies, an analysis of approximately 1,000 invasive breast tumors has confirmed. The s...

A new technology for detecting neutrinos represents a “monumental” advance for science --

Hydrogels, also known as soft matter in the medical world, are leading materials for biomedical applications such as drug delivery and stem cell therapy. But traditional hydrogels, used in products such as facial masks a...

A multi-week regimen may be an effective complement to traditional therapy for depression, multiple studies suggest.

A simpler procedure for collecting biopsy specimens during various procedures can improve patient care, research shows. Additionally, study indicates how a relatively new procedure, POEM, has been adapted to help an addi...

Maize reached the southern US 4000 years ago, but wasn't farmed in cooler areas until 2000 years later - because it took that long to develop cool-hardy strains

There's growing evidence that yoga can help with symptoms of depression, suggesting the practice might complement talking therapies and antidepressants

The oldest intact asteroids hint that planets didn't grow by slowly gathering small space rocks, but came from rapidly collapsing dust

An experimental drug protected mice from one of the many ills of our cheeseburger and milkshake-laden Western diet -- non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The drug reversed liver inflammation, injury and scarring in animal...

Recognizing that administrative health care databases can be a valuable, yet challenging, tool in the nation's ongoing pursuit of personalized medicine, statisticians have developed advanced statistical modeling and anal...

Scientists exploring the brain for answers to certain sleep disorders may have been looking in the wrong place, suggests new research.

RNAi is a mainstay of contemporary biological research. But how exactly this crucial mechanism functions in humans remains a partial mystery that we are now one step closer to solving. Structural biologists have now publ...

A particular gut microbe can prevent severe flu infections in mice, likely by breaking down naturally occurring compounds -- called flavonoids -- commonly found in foods such as black tea, red wine and blueberries, new r...

The combination of a bacterium that normally lives in the gut and a protein-rich diet promotes a more tolerant, less inflammatory gut immune system, according to new research. The findings, in mice, suggest a way to tilt...

In 1974, a Fermilab physicist predicted a new way for ghostly particles called neutrinos to interact with matter. More than four decades later, a UChicago-led team of physicists built the world's smallest neutrino detect...

University of Chicago physicists working in the nascent field of experimental vortex dynamics have, with unexpected help from a Sharpie marker, achieved the first measurements of an elusive but fundamental property of fl...

Precision medicine has become the leading innovation of cancer treatment. Patients are routinely treated with drugs that are designed to target specific tumors and molecules. Despite the progress that has been made in ta...