The National Institutes of Health has renewed its funding for $290 million over the next seven years for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, which is the largest long-term brain development study that has been conducted on child health in the nation.
Today’s measure of 50-year record high tides will become daily events by 2050 for many coastal dwellers in the United States.
NASA released a photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of a swirling spiral galaxy named NGC 2906.
Jazz guitarists helped researchers show that inexperienced musicians rely on their brain’s right hemisphere, but experienced musicians can improvise almost automatically while primarily using their brain's left hemisphere.
COVID-19 antibody testing that’s portable, fast, cheap and highly precise—four attributes that are usually mutually exclusive—could be possible with a microfluidic device invented at the University of Michigan and developed by U-M startup Optofluidic Bioassay.
“Living document” expected to be updated often as new clinical data accrue.
The University of Michigan has led an international team in creating complicated and intricate microparticles, even more so than the ones found in nature.
A team of scientists from the Emory School of Medicine appeared to put another piece of the puzzle in place to predict and treat Alzheimer’s disease with a new finding that identified disease-specific proteins and biological processes that could be developed into both new treatments and biomarkers.
An uncommon nova outburst captured by three satellites in 2018 has given direct proof that most of visible light from the explosion is caused by shock waves.
A recent study by the National Science Foundation found that people who currently live in Eurasia have genetic material linked to Neanderthals from the Altai mountains in present-day Siberia, according to a press release from the foundation.
Scientists at the University of California in San Diego have found that behaviors are regulated by the circadian clock and when these behaviors are irregular, it increases an individual's risk of disease, according to a university-issued press release.
When University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Abrar Abidi heard that several staff members at the San Francisco County Jail had tested positive for COVID-19, he and others worked around the clock to manufacture, package and deliver more than 900 bottles of hand sanitizer to the jail – enough for each inmate at all five county lockups.
The use of telemedicine has soared at Emory Healthcare during the COVID-19 outbreak, according to Gregory Esper, MD, MBA, associate chief medical officer at Emory Healthcare and leader of Emory’s systemwide telehealth initiatives.
The partnership between Manchester's NHS and other academic organizations has been given an extension to continue its world-leading health research for diseases, treatments and patient care.
To increase testing for COVID-19, researchers are coming together.
Scientists were hopeful that “Comet Atlas” would become visible to the naked eye in the northern hemisphere towards the end of April.
Mucus may be part of the spread of the coronavirus and University of Utah biomedical engineer Jessica Kramer has received a grant to research the potential role it plays in spreading the virus.
According to a March 30 report in the journal Nature, 60 days after Hubei province went into lockdown, authorities are lifting travel restrictions.
In March weather balloons over the arctic reported a 90 percent drop in ozone near the center of the ozone layer.
Data published from the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (A4) study on April 6 show that early stages of Alzheimer's disease could be represented by high levels of amyloid protein in the brain.