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Screening is a test to detect early disease or risk factors for disease in large numbers of apparently healthy individuals. In medicine, it is checking for disease when there are no symptoms.
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OCT 27, 2016Health & Medicine
JUPITER, FL – October 26, 2016 – In a remarkable “two for one” discovery, scientists from the Fl ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)OCT 24, 2016Neuroscience
Cross your heart, hope to die, stick a needle in your eye. Wasn’t this one of the scariest rhymes ever? As it turn ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 18, 2016Neuroscience
When babies are first born, there’s a lot of neurological development going on. Their eyesight starts to sharpen, ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 17, 2016Cancer
A person’s risks for cancer and other diseases aren’t just sealed in their genetic code – environment ...OCT 13, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
A new test may detect the presence of abnormal proteins indicative of a deadly prion disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...OCT 13, 2016Neuroscience
Think back to when you were five years old, or maybe when you had a five year old child. Memories often involve playgrou ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 11, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Mammograms are among the top routine procedures that make women cringe the most. For sure, it’s an important tool ...OCT 09, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
If you’re familiar with the word prion than you probably associate it with dysfunction and disease. Prions infamou ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 05, 2016Cancer
A drug that’s approved for the treatment of kidney cancer could find renewed purpose against other cancer types to ...OCT 03, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
To put it simply, organisms inherit a copy of each gene from each parent. For a small group of genes, roughly one hundre ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 30, 2016Plants & Animals
It’s long been documented that birds are smart critters, but Dr Damian Scarf from the University of Otago’s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 28, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
About three to six percent of the population is fervently afraid of spiders. Just the thought of the hairy eight-legged ...SEP 28, 2016Neuroscience
The staggering numbers of autism cases are no surprise to most, but what some might not realize is how those numbers bre ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 20, 2016Immunology
Norovirus is the most common viral cause of diarrhea worldwide, but because of an inability to grow it in a lab, scienti ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)SEP 20, 2016Cardiology
Living in unabashedly racist communities may shorten the lives of both blacks and whites. For a new study, researchers c ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)SEP 19, 2016Neuroscience
There is theory that if you put a bunch of monkeys in a room randomly typing eventually something coherent, like a Shake ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 14, 2016Neuroscience
Virtual reality headsets are a big hit with gamers and others who want to experience a different way of playing online g ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 13, 2016Microbiology
After performing the first genome wide screen of Apicomplexa, researchers have identified a potential mechanism for the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 13, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Errors in DNA methylation are often found to be causative in different types of cancer, but scientists still do not know ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 06, 2016Neuroscience
Image Credit: iStockphoto No matter how you did in high school science, you’re a master of the laws of physics, ab ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)SEP 06, 2016Cardiology
Having sex frequently—and enjoying it—may put older men at higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovas ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)AUG 31, 2016Microbiology
New research published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters demonstrates the ability of small molecules to bl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 29, 2016Cancer
A recent study recently found that being overweight is now linked to 8 more cancers, including stomach and pancreatic ca ...AUG 24, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles are infamous buzzwords in the scientific community, referring to two thought-to-be ...Written By: Kara Marker
OCT 27, 2016
Health & Medicine
JUPITER, FL – October 26, 2016 – In a remarkable “two for one” discovery, scientists from the Fl
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
OCT 24, 2016
Neuroscience
Cross your heart, hope to die, stick a needle in your eye. Wasn’t this one of the scariest rhymes ever? As it turn
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 18, 2016
Neuroscience
When babies are first born, there’s a lot of neurological development going on. Their eyesight starts to sharpen,
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 17, 2016
Cancer
A person’s risks for cancer and other diseases aren’t just sealed in their genetic code – environment
...
OCT 13, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
A new test may detect the presence of abnormal proteins indicative of a deadly prion disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob
...
OCT 13, 2016
Neuroscience
Think back to when you were five years old, or maybe when you had a five year old child. Memories often involve playgrou
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 11, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Mammograms are among the top routine procedures that make women cringe the most. For sure, it’s an important tool
...
OCT 09, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
If you’re familiar with the word prion than you probably associate it with dysfunction and disease. Prions infamou
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 05, 2016
Cancer
A drug that’s approved for the treatment of kidney cancer could find renewed purpose against other cancer types to
...
OCT 03, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
To put it simply, organisms inherit a copy of each gene from each parent. For a small group of genes, roughly one hundre
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2016
Plants & Animals
It’s long been documented that birds are smart critters, but Dr Damian Scarf from the University of Otago’s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
About three to six percent of the population is fervently afraid of spiders. Just the thought of the hairy eight-legged
...
SEP 28, 2016
Neuroscience
The staggering numbers of autism cases are no surprise to most, but what some might not realize is how those numbers bre
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 20, 2016
Immunology
Norovirus is the most common viral cause of diarrhea worldwide, but because of an inability to grow it in a lab, scienti
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
SEP 20, 2016
Cardiology
Living in unabashedly racist communities may shorten the lives of both blacks and whites. For a new study, researchers c
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
SEP 19, 2016
Neuroscience
There is theory that if you put a bunch of monkeys in a room randomly typing eventually something coherent, like a Shake
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 14, 2016
Neuroscience
Virtual reality headsets are a big hit with gamers and others who want to experience a different way of playing online g
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 13, 2016
Microbiology
After performing the first genome wide screen of Apicomplexa, researchers have identified a potential mechanism for the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 13, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Errors in DNA methylation are often found to be causative in different types of cancer, but scientists still do not know
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 06, 2016
Neuroscience
Image Credit: iStockphoto No matter how you did in high school science, you’re a master of the laws of physics, ab
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
SEP 06, 2016
Cardiology
Having sex frequently—and enjoying it—may put older men at higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovas
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
AUG 31, 2016
Microbiology
New research published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters demonstrates the ability of small molecules to bl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 29, 2016
Cancer
A recent study recently found that being overweight is now linked to 8 more cancers, including stomach and pancreatic ca
...
AUG 24, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles are infamous buzzwords in the scientific community, referring to two thought-to-be
...
Written By:
Kara Marker