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Researchers have developed a model that can predict with 80% accuracy whether a new...
Researchers have used a combination of social media and transport data to predict the likelihood that a given retail business will succeed or fail.
Using...
Breast cancer cells can physically push their way out of their normal confines to...
Cancers pose the greatest danger when they become invasive and then spread from their originating tissues throughout the body.
Although scientists have long known that...
Researchers developed an antiretroviral medication called dolutegravir – HIV treatment and prevention
A persistent challenge in HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention is medication adherence – getting patients to take their medication as required to get the best...
Distinct skeletal disorders share a common pathway
A rare and as-yet-unnamed skeletal disorder shares a common "signaling pathway" with another rare skeletal disorder called Jansen metaphyseal chondrodysplasia.
(A signaling pathway is a...
How the senses can influence each other- in particular, how sound can give rise...
We experience the world through our senses, a constant torrent of sights, sounds, smells, and more.
Our brains take these signals and process them, giving...
Healthy gut microbiome is important for recovery after a heart attack
The community of microorganisms that live in the human gut has been shown to confer all kinds of health benefits. Now, an international team...
Eating disorders : how people perceive their bodies – the researchers used virtual reality...
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent...
First ever CAR therapy licensed for the treatment of lymphoma available to patients
A type of 'supercharged' immune cell could be mass-produced to help fight cancer.
The researchers behind the early-stage finding, from Imperial College London, say the...
A healthy home environment could help offset children’s genetic susceptibilities to obesity
A healthy home environment could help offset children's genetic susceptibilities to obesity, according to new research led by UCL.
The study, published this week in...
Body’s inability to fully utilize mineral manganese might be to blame for some cases...
Nobody knows why some children's backs start to curve to one side just as they hit puberty. Most children diagnosed with scoliosis, or curvature...
Toddlers with asthma are more likely to become obese children
Toddlers with asthma are more likely to become obese children, according to an international study led by USC scientists.
The finding is a turnabout for...
Inflammation in the womb may explain link between prenatal inflammation and postnatal immune status
Each year 15 million infants are born preterm and face high risks of short- and long-term complications, including sepsis, severe inflammation of the gut,...
Researchers has found genetic risk factor for erectile dysfunction
For the first time, a team of researchers has found a specific place in the human genome that raises a person's risk of erectile...
Why the Russian defense system S-400 is bought from many nations?
The Vostok-2018 war games in eastern Siberia last month marked Russia's biggest military exercise in more than 30 years, with about 300,000 Russian, Chinese and Mongolian...
USC scientists have created the most detailed atlas yet of the brain’s memory bank
Curing some of the most vexing diseases first requires navigating the world's most complex structure—the human brain. So, USC scientists have created the most...
