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Recently, roughly 200 eminent scientists assembled in Boston. Their agenda? Creating "superhero" human cells impervious to all viral attacks and possibly other killers--radiation, freezing, aging, or even cancer. The tri...

Typhoid Mary may have infected a hundred or more people, but asymptomatic carriers of malaria infect far more people every year. Researchers is working toward a way to identify malaria patients including infected individ...

A team of researchers has identified a technology to address the problem of false positives in CT-based lung cancer screening.

A new study found that measuring electrical activity in the brain can help predict a patient's response to an antidepressant.

Researchers have developed a new robotic system than can help people to get dressed. The system relies on the force it feels to help guide a hospital gown onto a person's arm efficiently.

A new article looks at theories of consciousness and novel research aimed at providing a better understanding of the roots of consciousness.

A new study reports people find puppies cutest just before they reach ten weeks of age. Researchers say this is around the same time at which they wean from their mothers and start to fend for themselves.

According to researchers, the adult brain may be sensitive to social and economic factors. Researchers report in middle age, better socioeconomic status is associated with more efficient brain network organization and th...

Researchers have identified a genetic overlap between rheumatoid arthritis and Huntington's disease. The findings could open the door to developing new therapeutic targets and medications to combat both conditions.

Only multimodal interventions that combined multiple categories were effective at reducing the risk of readmission for pediatric asthma between 30 days and one year after initial discharge, Children's research finds.

Ibuprofen, given instead of antibiotics to women with uncomplicated urinary tract infection (cystitis), leads to longer duration of symptoms and more serious adverse events related to the spread of the primary infection,...

A team of biologists has determined how transcription factors, which guide gene regulation, function differently in embryonic development. The results help illuminate how cells acquire distinct functions as the embryo ma...

While calories from any food have the potential to increase the risk of obesity and other cardiometabolic diseases, nutrition researchers agree that sugar-sweetened beverages play a unique role in chronic health problems...

The early Earth was likely orbited by lots of small moons, which rained down onto the surface and could have built up ancient continents

Many scientists suspect life began with a molecule called RNA, but there has long been a big problem with this idea. Now there is a solution

People signup to Facebook personality apps for fun but few read the terms and conditions. Once, this may have seemed reasonable, but the climate has changed

Researchers have found that MRI fusion biopsy -- coupling MRI and ultrasound to visualize suspicious lesions in the prostate gland and targeting the biopsy to that particular area -- outperformed standard prostate biopsy...

For patients with chronic conditions like arthritis or diabetes, arguments with a spouse may have physical repercussions, according to researchers. They found that in two groups of older individuals -- one group with art...

Drug-resistant staph infections continue to be deadlier than those that are not resistant and treatable with traditional antibiotics, but treatment costs surprisingly are the same or slightly less, a new national analysi...

Scientists have shown for the first time that the blueprint for the four chambers of the human heart exists in the humble zebrafish.

If two protons collide at 99.9999991 percent the speed of light, do they make a sound? What is it like inside the LHC? Symmetry tackles some unconventional questions about the world's highest energy particle accelerator....

According to a new study, melatonin works by suppressing neurons that keep you awake and alert. The findings could pave the way for new treatments for insomnia.