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A group of researchers from the Technion and the United States reports a breakthrough in MRI scanning in a paper published in Nature Communications. The researchers developed an innovative method that accelerates and enhances ...

A night without sleep produced increased markers of connections between brain cells, showing that sleep in humans may be important for restoring cellular balance in the brain, according to a study published in PLOS Biology ...

Research led by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and University College Dublin (UCD) has identified immune markers that could help doctors more accurately determine which breast cancer patients are unlikely ...

The association between parents' body mass index (BMI) and their children's childhood BMI may be primarily due to genetic inheritance rather than any direct biological effect of parental weight during pregnancy, according ...

New research shows men with very low testosterone levels are at higher risk of both fatal and nonfatal cancer later in life. But while the research found men with low testosterone were 18% more likely to die of cancer years ...

Managing a medical supply chain in low- and middle-income countries can mean navigating a landscape prone to extreme and unexpected disruptions. In Sierra Leone, for instance, external forces ranging from an attempted military ...

Laughter is a universal social signal that connects us with others, but the brain regions underlying laughter are not well understood, in part because it's hard to elicit genuine laughter in the lab.

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a miniature dental robot that could one day automatically prepare teeth for crowns. The technology could help reduce the number of appointments needed for dental treatment.

For children with suspected inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a chronic, relapsing condition of the gastrointestinal tract, getting the right diagnosis relies on a combination of clinical evaluation, imaging, endoscopy and ...

Strange "chimeric" RNA once thought to be the product of cancer is actually an important controller of women's health, including influencing their susceptibility to infectious disease and autoimmune disorders, new University ...

Internet-based vestibular rehabilitation (VR) is not superior to written instructions for reducing vestibular symptoms six weeks after acute-onset vertigo, according to a study published online June 12 in PLOS One.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers and the third-leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. While scientists continue searching for new therapies, advances can also come from understanding ...