Shanghai pensioner Mou Guoying has spent the past three months crocheting woollen roses for Beijing Olympic medallists' bouquets - Copyright AFP Jessica YANG Shanghai ...

A new study from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research shows how rises in core body temperature may trigger the inflammatory flares in people with a rare genetic autoinflammatory disease. The ...

Some cells, such as immune cells, are highly mobile—they constantly remodel their shape, migrate toward a wound that needs to ...

Timing of exposure to a high-fat diet appears to influence food preferences and weight gain in mice and may mirror behaviors seen in humans with disrupted circadian rhythms.

First-of-its-kind study on 266 men found 20% have higher levels of the hormone in the vessels surrounding the prostate. Drawing blood from the arms of prostate cancer patients to assess for ...

A new study is challenging previously held misconceptions about the relationship between animal protein and health.

Scientists at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf and the University of Udine have detected ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Svante Pääbo for his discoveries about the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist and a director ...

By targeting a specific area of the brain, researchers at Washington State University may now hold the key to curbing the debilitating symptoms of alcohol withdrawal that push many people back to ...

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