New research reveals that bilingualism has a positive effect on cognition later in life. Findings published in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child…

Like blonde hair? You can thank the Kit ligand gene. A single-letter change in the genetic code is enough to generate blond hair in humans, according to a new analysis by Howard Hughes Medical…

Twenty years after the hormone leptin was found to regulate metabolism, appetite, and weight through brain cells called neurons, a new study in Nature Neuroscience says that the hormone also acts on…

A UCLA research team has discovered a new hormone called erythroferrone, which regulates the iron supply needed for red blood-cell production. Iron is an essential functional component of hemoglobin…

Researchers have defined a previously unrecognized genetic cause for two types of birth defects found in newborn boys  "Cryptorchidism and hypospadias are among the most common birth defects but…

At the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers reported results of a Phase I trial of OMP-54F28 (FZD8-Fc), an…

If you want to survive your hospital stay, try to avoid being admitted on the weekend.  A systematic review and meta-analysis of various world regions that included 72 studies and 55,053,719…

In the debate over government control of health care in the United States, critics looked at the UK system and its death panels, which drew an arbitrary line on when to stop treatment. Their recent…

While western nations have dropped emissions on schedule, led by the United States, which has pushed its greenhouse gas emissions from energy back to early 1990s levels and coal back to early 1980s…

There is good news for cancer survivors - their numbers continue to grow. There are currently 14.5 million cancer survivors in the USA and that will grow to almost 19 million by 2024, according to…

As targeted therapies become more available, increasing opportunity exists to match treatments to the genetics of a specific cancer - but oncologists have to know these genetics in order to make the…

Kim Stanley Robinson in his famous Trilogy Red, Green and Blue Mars describes a science fiction future with Mars changing colour to green and then to blue. However there are many other colours Mars…

Everything you do changes your brain, even reading this sentence. A psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire believes that clothing impacts the way we think and literally changes…

In Mexico, 21.7 percent of the population smokes. By now, smoking has been implicated in every possible condition - lung cancer, obviously, but then crazy claims like that third-hand smoke could lead…

New Haven, Conn. — A multi-center phase I study using an investigational drug for advanced bladder cancer patients who did not respond to other treatments has shown promising results in patients with…

Structural biologists have made important progress towards better understanding the functioning of the circadian clock. The circadian or inner clock coordinates the sleep-wake rhythm and many other…

The clinical promise of stem cells has been dampened by concerns that the immune system will reject the transplanted cells before they could render any long-term benefit. Previous research in mice…

CHICAGO – People in the late stages of cancer and other terminal illnesses are not only unharmed by discontinuing statins for cholesterol management, they may benefit, according to a study presented…

Boston, MA – The tangled highway of blood vessels that twists and turns inside our bodies, delivering essential nutrients and disposing of hazardous waste to keep our organs working properly has been…

Exposing infants to a new vegetable early in life encourages them to eat more of it compared to offering novel vegetables to older children, say psychologists from the University of Leeds. Of course…