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Journal of Adolescent Health : ongoing communication about sex between parents and their adolescent...
Patting yourself on the back for gritting through "the talk" with your kid?
Not so fast: new research from Brigham Young University family life professor...
Parkinson’s disease : Study estimates 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men...
One in two women and one in three men will likely be diagnosed with dementia, Parkinson's disease, or stroke in their lifetime, estimate Dutch...
A single engineered leukemia cell was able to reproduce and cause a deadly recurrence...
A single leukemia cell, unknowingly engineered with the leukemia-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) lentivirus and infused back into a patient, was able to reproduce...
Cholesterol : generic drug side effects can targets heart disease and diabetes
From the DNA of nearly 300,000 veterans, scientists have singled out a handful of genetic mutations that not only govern levels of cholesterol, but...
Familiar voices are easier to understand and this advantage holds even if when we...
Familiar voices are easier to understand and this advantage holds even if when we aren't able to identify who those familiar voices belong to,...
Chronic kidney disease treatment : Genetic variants reveal new targets
The kidney does more than double or even triple duty compared to other organs—it extracts waste, balances body fluids, forms urine, regulates blood pressure,...
Biomedical engineers found a critical component for growing self-healing muscle tissues from adult muscle
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have found a critical component for growing self-healing muscle tissues from adult muscle—the immune system.
The discovery in mice is...
defective or inert HIV-1 can remain in the liver macrophages for up to ten...
In a proof-of-principle study, researchers at Johns Hopkins report that a certain liver immune cell called a macrophage contains only defective or inert HIV-1...
A revolutionary cancer treatment therapy weaponises immune system against cancer
A revolutionary cancer treatment pioneered by the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been hailed as the future of fighting the...
Brain networks involved with free will – new study related to movement decisions
Utilizing lesion network mapping, a recently developed technique for analyzing how the brain works, Ryan Darby, MD, assistant professor of Neurology at Vanderbilt, studied...
New solution for the recovery of muscular lesions and inflammations
Anyone who has ever torn or injured a muscle knows that swelling, redness, and pain soon follow the injury: classic signs of inflammation.
Inflammation is...
why you can’t decide what to order for lunch : you have experienced...
If you've ever found yourself staring at a lengthy restaurant menu and been completely unable to decide what to order for lunch, you have...
Violent video game play by adolescents is associated with increases in physical aggression over...
Violent video game play by adolescents is associated with increases in physical aggression over time, according to a Dartmouth meta-analysis published in the Proceedings...
Children who are abused might carry the imprint of that trauma in their cell
Children who are abused might carry the imprint of that trauma in their cells—a biochemical marking that is detectable years later, according to new...
Targeting HSP70 could be an effective strategy for some of the most aggressive breast...
A member of a protein family known for protecting our cells also protects cancer cells in aggressive, metastatic breast cancer, scientists report.
Induction of heat...
