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University of Queensland researchers are developing a new asthma treatment that targets the underlying cause of asthma, rather than just the symptoms.

New research has brought us closer to being able to understand the health benefits of coffee.

PARN and RTEL1 genes strengthen the link between lung fibrosis and telomere dysfunction.

NIH-funded preclinical study suggests epigenetic drugs may be used to treat leading cause of pediatric brain cancer death.

Benefits for Leber congenital amaurosis peak after one to three years, then diminish.

Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have combined sophisticated computer vision algorithms and a brain-computer interface to find mines in sonar images of the ocean floor. The study shows that the new method speeds detection up considerably, when compared to existing methods--mainly visual inspection by a mine detection expert.

Researchers have uncovered a unique connection between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, providing further evidence that a disease that robs people of their memories may be affected by elevated blood sugar, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill have used exosomes- tiny bubbles of protein and fat produced naturally by cells- to bypass the body's defenses and deliver a potent antioxidant directly to the brain to treat Parkinson's disease.

Patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can, in rare cases, experience bleeding on the brain that causes a type of stroke called intracerebral hemorrhage.

The learning mechanism of neurons has inspired researchers at the University of Valladolid (Spain) to create algorithms that can predict whether a bank will go bust. The model was correct for 96% of the banks that went bust in the [US] in 2013 after analyzing their financial indicators from the previous decade, marked by the economic crisis.