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A 3D-printed microchip device can sensitively detect three serum biomarkers of pre-term birth. The device, which utilizes electrophoresis, is easy to use and has the potential to better inform doctors and improve outcomes.

Immune cells prioritize the clearance of dead cells overriding their normal migration to sites of injury. This research paves the way for new therapies to manipulate how white blood cells get to and are kept at sites of injuries during healing.

Working with bacteria, a multidisciplinary team at the University of California San Diego has provided new insight into a longstanding question in science: What are the underlying mechanisms that control the size of cells?

Getting more exercise than normal - or being more sedentary than usual - for one day may be enough to affect sleep later that night, according to a new study. In a one-week micro-longitudinal experiment, researchers found that when teenagers got more physical activity than they usually did, they got to sleep earlier, slept longer and slept better that night.

Many hookah smokers believe that electrical heating elements (EHEs) are less harmful than charcoal, but research shows that although EHEs reduce some toxicants, they increase others.

A new study found that proton therapy is associated with fewer severe side effects than conventional X-ray radiation therapy.

Scientists have found that bowel cancer is actually five distinct diseases, with different biological characteristics which affect how they respond to drugs. The new genetic test can diagnose a person’s specific type of bowel cancer in a matter of hours and help tailor treatments to each individual disease.

Elements of reproductive health were analyzed in a study of 2523 young men across all regions of Switzerland. Of the men in the study, only 38% had sperm concentration, motility, and morphology values that met WHO semen reference criteria.

Review of studies suggests a potentially useful link between gut bacteria and mental disorders.

A research team has zeroed in on what may be easily detectable markers of Parkinson’s disease.The evidence is in the specific angles and sharpness of electrical waves in unfiltered raw data captured by scalp electroencephalograms of patients receiving treatment for the degenerative disease that slowly damages the central nervous system.