Benign 'Toothlet' Tumor Found in 255 Million-Year-Old Fossil
A fossil of a distant ancestor of the mammals -- which include humans -- shows evidence of a benign tumor of the jaw, scientists report.
Mummy of 17th Century Child May Alter the History of Smallpox
A mummy of a child who lived in the 1600s in Lithuania could offer new insight into how smallpox developed over the millennia.
NIH competition seeks wearable device to detect alcohol levels in real-time
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health, is once again challenging the biotech community to design a wearable device capable of measuring blood alcohol in near real-time. The ideal device would...
Cellular immunotherapy targets a common human cancer mutation
In a study of an immune therapy for colorectal cancer that involved a single patient, a team of researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) identified a method for targeting the cancer-causing protein produced by a mutant form of the KRAS gene...
Best Way to Beat Back Zika a Matter of Debate
Brain Scan Test Predicts Fall Risk in Elderly
World Bank Injects $122 million to Tackle TB in Southern Africa
Following the approval by the World Bank Board in May of this year of $122 million worth of financial assistance to tackle the scourge of Tuberculosis (TB) in some of Southern Africa’s high burden TB countries --Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia...
New Clues to Huge Jump in U.S. Mosquito Population
Raising the curtain on cerebral malaria’s deadly agents
Using state-of-the-art brain imaging technology, scientists at the National Institutes of Health filmed what happens in the brains of mice that developed cerebral malaria (CM). The results, published in PLOS Pathogens, reveal the processes that lead...
Keeping Minors From Tanning Beds Would Save Thousands of Lives, Study Says
