The emotional well-being of families where children lack a genetic or gestational link to one or both of their parents -- where the children have been conceived...

Low maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy may affect primary tooth calcification, leading toenamel defects, which are a risk factor for early-childhood tooth...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eicosapentaenoic acid, or EPA -- the essential omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid abundant in oily fish -- may help protect stroke patients...

Canadian scientists have shown that a noisy brain is a healthy brain. "Brain noise" is a term that has been used by neuroscientists to describe random brain activity...

Acoustic waves play many everyday roles -- from communication between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves in materials, with nearly...

Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells known as glial progenitor cells that are important to brain health...

Researchers of the University of Granada and the University of León (Spain) have proved that human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells can be an effective alternative...

By measuring the charged particles in the planet Mercury's magnetic field, a University of Michigan sensor enabled the first observations about the surface and atmospheric...

Titanium implants were successfully introduced by P.-I. Brånemark and co-workers in 1969 for therehabilitation of edentulous jaws. After 40 years of research and...

People who smoke skunk are more likely to develop psychosis than those who use milder forms of cannabis, researchers claim. Read more...

In the continuing effort to tap the vast, unexplored reaches of the earth's microbial and plant domains for bioenergy and environmental applications, the DOE Joint...

Compact, bedside brain-activity monitors detected most seizures in at-risk infants, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed....

This month's issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features a set of articles with clear, step-by-step instructions for the analysis of HapMap data. Read more...

As it takes over the EU's rotating presidency, France says it wants to give European space policy a new political direction. Read more...

Long-term climate change policy in the US and abroad is likely to change very slowly, warns a researcher who calls for stronger short-term goals to reduce carbon...

Two reports from TRAFFIC, the world's largest wildlife trade monitoring network, on traditional medicine systems in Cambodia and Vietnam suggest that illegal wildlife...

Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have uncovered how a gene, melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24),...

Clinician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are suggesting an immediate and important change to guidelines used in the care...

Overactivation of proteins known as calpains, which are involved in memory formation, has been linked to Alzheimer disease. Researchers have now shown that two different...

The current standard practice of giving infants and children 100 percent oxygen to prevent brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation may actually inflict additional...

Too little of one type of cholesterol has been linked by research to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease. Read more...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Middle-aged people with low levels of so-called good cholesterol may be at higher risk for memory decline that could foreshadow Alzheimer's...

In a breakthrough scientific study published today in the PNAS, scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research have shown that neural stem cell development...

The "La Mente Bilingüe" research team that doctor Itziar Laka leads in the faculty of arts at the University of the Basque Country analyses bilingual processing...

Low levels of good cholesterol are associated with diminished memory by age 60.Researchers encourage physicians to monitor levels of good cholesterol. Read more...