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Human health and disease
Human health and disease refers to understanding what contributes to human health (the staste of mental, social, and physical being) and what factors may deter health (such as disease, infection, etc.)
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MAY 15, 2021Drug Discovery & Development
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2019, there were approximately 229 million cases of malaria around ...Written By: Annie LennonMAY 15, 2021Drug Discovery & Development
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2016, around 2 billion adults around the world were overweight ...Written By: Annie LennonMAY 14, 2021Microbiology
Researchers have created an imaging agent that will allow scientists and clinicians to visualize a bacterial infection c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 13, 2021Microbiology
What can we learn from a specimen of ancient poo? A lot, it turns out. Scientists have now reported their findings from ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 12, 2021Cardiology
Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder that disrupts the connective tissues that anchor and link the body's organs, affec ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 12, 2021Immunology
Teams of science experts from numerous disciplines have been collecting data on SARS-CoV-2 for over a year to understand ...Written By: Caroline WallaceMAY 12, 2021Health & Medicine
Doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia discovered a new genetic disease that prevents B cell development.Written By: Caroline WallaceMAY 11, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), which virtually eliminates a patient's immune system, and severely affects thei ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 11, 2021Clinical & Molecular DX
Sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care, and early diagnosis is a decisive factor in determini ...Sponsored By: bioMérieux IncMAY 10, 2021Microbiology
The pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 has changed the world in devastating ways, taking hundreds of thousands of lives & new var ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 10, 2021Microbiology
For many years, many parts of the human body were considered to be sterile, which is to say, totally free of microorgani ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 09, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Researchers are identifying more rare disorders because of advances in genetic sequencing technologies, which have made ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 08, 2021Earth & The Environment
Need another reason to go vegetarian or vegan? In the United States alone, there are 16,000 deaths annually resulting fr ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 06, 2021Clinical & Molecular DX
Digital networks have changed the world by integrating into almost every aspect of our lives, but they have yet to direc ...Sponsored By: Cardea BioMAY 03, 2021Neuroscience
In a new study, researchers have identified previously unknown attributes of human neurons after being given rare access ...Written By: Annie LennonMAY 03, 2021Cardiology
Researchers have identified a surprising number of health screens that are given to patients who may not need them. Thes ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 02, 2021Microbiology
Increasingly, microbes in the gut are being linked to human health and disease. New research has suggested that disrupti ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 29, 2021Immunology
The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling our attention to World Immunization Week, which comes in the last week of ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 28, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
Sugar is something sweet to add to your food, but just like fat, different types of sugars play important roles in biolo ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 27, 2021Cardiology
Research has suggested that excess weight around the midsection of a person's body is a much better predictor of poor he ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 26, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have now determined that an experimental stem cell therapy successfully repaired brain damage and improved m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 25, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
When we're exposed to a pathogen, our immune system normally mounts a robust response against it. Antibodies are generat ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 23, 2021Microbiology
The microbes that live in the human gut have a powerful influence on our health, and that microbial community is with us ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 23, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
It's thought that unlike cell types that are constantly replenishing themselves (like many types of blood cells, for ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
MAY 15, 2021
Drug Discovery & Development
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2019, there were approximately 229 million cases of malaria around
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 15, 2021
Drug Discovery & Development
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2016, around 2 billion adults around the world were overweight
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 14, 2021
Microbiology
Researchers have created an imaging agent that will allow scientists and clinicians to visualize a bacterial infection c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 13, 2021
Microbiology
What can we learn from a specimen of ancient poo? A lot, it turns out. Scientists have now reported their findings from
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 12, 2021
Cardiology
Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder that disrupts the connective tissues that anchor and link the body's organs, affec
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 12, 2021
Immunology
Teams of science experts from numerous disciplines have been collecting data on SARS-CoV-2 for over a year to understand
...
Written By:
Caroline Wallace
MAY 12, 2021
Health & Medicine
Doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia discovered a new genetic disease that prevents B cell development.
Written By:
Caroline Wallace
MAY 11, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), which virtually eliminates a patient's immune system, and severely affects thei
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 11, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
Sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care, and early diagnosis is a decisive factor in determini
...
Sponsored By:
bioMérieux Inc
MAY 10, 2021
Microbiology
The pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 has changed the world in devastating ways, taking hundreds of thousands of lives & new var
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 10, 2021
Microbiology
For many years, many parts of the human body were considered to be sterile, which is to say, totally free of microorgani
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 09, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers are identifying more rare disorders because of advances in genetic sequencing technologies, which have made
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 08, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Need another reason to go vegetarian or vegan? In the United States alone, there are 16,000 deaths annually resulting fr
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 06, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
Digital networks have changed the world by integrating into almost every aspect of our lives, but they have yet to direc
...
Sponsored By:
Cardea Bio
MAY 03, 2021
Neuroscience
In a new study, researchers have identified previously unknown attributes of human neurons after being given rare access
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 03, 2021
Cardiology
Researchers have identified a surprising number of health screens that are given to patients who may not need them. Thes
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 02, 2021
Microbiology
Increasingly, microbes in the gut are being linked to human health and disease. New research has suggested that disrupti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 29, 2021
Immunology
The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling our attention to World Immunization Week, which comes in the last week of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 28, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Sugar is something sweet to add to your food, but just like fat, different types of sugars play important roles in biolo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 27, 2021
Cardiology
Research has suggested that excess weight around the midsection of a person's body is a much better predictor of poor he
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 26, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have now determined that an experimental stem cell therapy successfully repaired brain damage and improved m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 25, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
When we're exposed to a pathogen, our immune system normally mounts a robust response against it. Antibodies are generat
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 23, 2021
Microbiology
The microbes that live in the human gut have a powerful influence on our health, and that microbial community is with us
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 23, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
It's thought that unlike cell types that are constantly replenishing themselves (like many types of blood cells, for
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch