Your immune system harbors a lifetime's worth of information about threats it's encountered—a biological Rolodex of baddies.

McMaster University researchers have identified small molecules in the blood that may impact early childhood development, ...

For terminally ill cancer patients, the final days of life are immensely personal, having the choice to continue cancer ...

Seed oils are liquid fats that come from plant seeds. The most notable are derived from canola, corn, cottonseed, soybean, ...

A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday, in a setback for health officials who had hoped for a quick end to the outbreak that ...

A team of researchers at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Kiel Campus, the Kiel University, and the ...

Scientists have a new target to prevent cold sores after University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers discovered an ...

An experimental treatment for an aggressive and lethal brain cancer has been published in Nature Medicine, paving the way for ...

A study led by UMass Chan Medical School researchers has demonstrated that a gene therapy to correct a mutation that causes ...

In fact, nitrous oxide has been used to get intoxicated since its creation in 1722, and wasn't used in surgery until 1842. It ...

Studies reveal that people with Down syndrome (DS) have over a 90% lifetime risk of developing dementia caused by Alzheimer's ...

The malaria parasite is still killing almost half a million people every year. A project has now identified a gene that holds ...