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A controversial study of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been published today in the journal Nature. The study, and similar one that will be published in Science, sparked ... Read More »

Implantable heart pumps save lives, but powering them requires wires that run through the skin, often leading to infection. The Houston-based company Procyrion... Read More »

A new study examining sleep and body mass index (BMI) in twins has found that sleeping more than nine hours a night may suppress genetic influences on body weight... Read More »

Brachytherapy, in which a small source of radiation is placed by the area requiring treatment, has been gaining popularity to treat breast cancer after a lumpectomy... Read More »

Two Michigan State University researchers have invented a protein purifier that will make  pharmaceutical production quicker and cheaper. Chemists Merlin... Read More »

A small grasshopper can leap 20 inches. Cicadas can produce sound at about the same frequency as radio waves. How do they do it? They make use of a naturally... Read More »

Thousands of people are diagnosed with liver diseases, like Hepatitis C, every year. One of the major complications of Hepatitis C is fibrosis, when damage causes the ... Read More »

Scientists have found a promising new target for drugs to treat aggressive pancreatic cancer, according to a study published in Nature. Researchers from Cancer... Read More »

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have defined the structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor, which has an essential role in the regulation of... Read More »

In a paper published today, researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno report that male pseudoscorpions treated with the antibiotic tetracycline suffer... Read More »

Here's your weekly roundup of hot medical news... Kidney transplant breakthroughs   For the first time, a kidney that had been donated to... Read More »

Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are making disease screening quicker and simpler. Most RDTs are small strips that react and change color in response to infected blood... Read More »

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new X-ray technique to identify tissue fibers in the heart that ensure the muscle beats regularly. A... Read More »

A research team at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has outlined the structure and function of the outermost layer of the skin -- the stratum corneum -- at a molecular ... Read More »

On the heels of news about the first kidney to be transplanted twice, here’s some more encouraging news for people in need of a kidney transplant. With the... Read More »

A new embryonic stem cell line developed at the University of Michigan has just been placed on the US National Institutes of Health's registry, making the cells... Read More »

For the first time, a kidney that had been donated to one patient was removed and implanted into a new patient, after it failed in the first transplant recipient. Ray ... Read More »

A gene that promotes initial development of the most common form of lung cancer and then drives its metastases has been identified by Mayo Clinic researchers in... Read More »

The Vantage Titan, from Toshiba Medical Systems, is a new MRI system that uses over 25 percent less power than conventional models. To do this, the system... Read More »

Two growth factors cooperate to maintain a pool of neuron-generating stem cells in the brain, according to a study by researchers at the University of Medicine and... Read More »