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Research indicates that applying new techniques to magnetic resonance pulmonary angiography (MRPA), which uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), significantly... Read More »

A research team led by scientists at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have identified a genetic variation that causes some patients to not respond to... Read More »

Researchers from the Rett Syndrome Research Trust and the Rett Syndrome Research Trust UK have found that a bone marrow transplant can arrest some of the symptoms of... Read More »

Most of us have turned to the Internet when we’ve felt under the weather at one point or another. We Google our symptoms to self-diagnose and sometimes we even... Read More »

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed an artificial pancreas that could lead to automatic care for patients with Type 1 diabetes ... Read More »

A new study shows that the addition of changes in inflammatory biomarkers to the established clinical predictors of mortality in patients with chronic obstructive... Read More »

A study by the Montreal Heart Institute and Innovaderm Research, Inc., has found that a treatment for psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin and... Read More »

Biologist Lee Ligon of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her research team have discovered a previously unknown way that breast cancer cells interact with... Read More »

A research team at Tufts University has identified epigenetic signatures of reprogrammed cells. These signatures are markers on DNA that can can control changes in... Read More »

Nithin Tumma, a 17-year-old from Fort Gratiot, Mich., earned first place in the Intel Science Talent Search 2012 and was awarded $100,000 by the Intel Foundation for... Read More »

University of Wisconsin scientists have used induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells derived from human blood to develop early retina structures. The structures showed... Read More »

A recent study publish in Cell has shown that to restore normal function to the mutant gene product that causes Cystic Fibrosis (CF), it is necessary to correct... Read More »

Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London and University of Surrey have identified a protein in blood vessels that is able to protect the body from substances ... Read More »

The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is working on creating complex nanostructures by taking... Read More »

Scientists have found a way to extend the average lifespan of mice with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading inherited cause of death in human infants and... Read More »

A team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, led by Tingeui Pan, a professor of biomedical engineering, have developed a new type... Read More »

New DNA-reading technology could be used in the diagnosis of muscle-wasting diseases such as muscular dystrophy. The DNA sequencing machine would allow for a more... Read More »

Researchers have identified the gene responsible for adult-onset primary cervical dystonia. Cervical dystonia causes an involuntary twisting of the neck. When a... Read More »

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have discovered how to increase the production of cells crucial to repairing damaged liver tissue. Understanding this... Read More »

Neuroscientists at University of California, Berkeley and Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Portugal have conducted a study that has shown that the brain is more ... Read More »