People with three Neanderthal-inherited gene variants in SCN9A are more sensitive to certain types of pain, revealing past interbreeding's genetic influence on modern humans. This study, led by UCL researchers,…

Keck Medicine of USC is conducting a clinical trial to determine if a low-carbohydrate, anti-inflammatory diet combined with a medical food raising blood ketone levels can alleviate symptoms of long…

Climate change is already now impacting people's health across the globe and is undermining factors for health and wellbeing, such as clean air and water, food, safe shelter, and economic…

An ongoing and open exchange between oral-health providers and family physicians can effectively improve the quality of their patients' treatment and wellbeing, and in certain cases even save lives.

A research group from Japan has developed a method to produce highly active mRNA vaccines at high purity using a unique cap to easily separate the desired capped mRNA.

A research team from MedUni Vienna and the FWF-sponsored Special Research Area SFB F83 Immunometabolism has now demonstrated for the first time the central role of macrophages in the renewal…

An innovative AI-based tool leverages varied symptom descriptions, along with evidence from the scientific literature and genomic datasets, to pinpoint disease-associated gene variants.

Pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes have recently been associated with a higher risk of developing heart disease later in life. But a new study has found obesity…

Lin Yee Chen, MD, MS, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and director of the Lillehei Heart Institute, has been awarded a $4.39 million grant from the…

The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center was awarded a prestigious grant to train the next generation of cancer drug discovery and development researchers.