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Scientists have devised a new computational method that reveals genetic patterns in the massive jumble of individual cells in the body.

Scientists using an experimental treatment have slowed the progression of scrapie, a degenerative central nervous disease caused by prions, in laboratory mice and greatly extended the rodents’ lives, according to a new report.

Use of the illegal stimulant methamphetamine causes build-up of tough protein fibers in the heart muscle, which may help explain the development of enlarged hearts and heart failure users of the drug.

Though food allergy affects more than 4.8 million children in the United States, no approved preventative treatments currently exist. A new study to evaluate an experimental treatment for food allergy could alleviate this risk.

A novel experimental vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a leading cause of severe respiratory illness in the very young and the old, has shown early promise in a Phase 1 clinical trial.

A new computational model hopes to open up new research avenues to design drugs against incurable neurodegenerative disorders

A new wireless transceiver invented by electrical engineers at the University of California, Irvine boosts radio frequencies into 100-gigahertz territory, quadruple the speed of the upcoming 5G, or fifth-generation, wireless communications standard.

'Predatory journals' pose a danger that could undermine the quality, integrity, and reliability of published scientific research, a new joint statement from three leading organizations, professional in medical writing and publication planning, has warned.

University of California, Irvine researchers have made it possible to learn how key human brain cells respond to Alzheimer's, vaulting a major obstacle in the quest to understand and one day vanquish it.

Scientists from the University of Groningen have now elucidated a structure of the human glutamine transporter "ASCT2" that provides unprecedented insight in the workings of this protein, and may help the development of drugs.