12-06-05 A parasitic infection called Chagas Disease has similarities to the early spread of HIV, according to research published recently in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 根据《PLoS被忽视的热带疾...

12-03-29 A report from the nation's leading cancer organizations shows rates of death in the United States from all cancers for men and women continued to decline between 2004 and 2008. The findings come from the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Sta...

12-03-05 A Washington State University researcher has demonstrated that a variety of environmental toxicants can have negative effects on not just an exposed animal but the next three generations of its offspring. The animal's DNA sequence remains unchanged,...

12-01-19 Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a compound that can help repair a specific type of defect in RNA, a type of genetic material. The methods in the new study could accelerate the development of thera...

11-12-29 A UT Southwestern Medical Center study using a sophisticated glass mouse research model has found that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis（肺结核） (TB) is more likely caused in patients by speedy drug metabolism rather than inconsistent doses, as is...

11-11-18 Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a protein called TAT-5 that affects the production of extracellular（细胞外的） vesicles, small sacs of membrane released from the surface of cells, capable of sending signals to other cells....

11-11-15 World citizen number 7 billion is less likely to die from infectious diseases like measles（麻疹） or even AIDS, and more likely to contract diabetes or other non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as they are now the leading causes of deaths globally. 1...

11-11-08 Knowledge about the development of the nervous system is of the greatest importance for us to understand the function of the brain and brain disorders. Researchers at Uppsala University have examined the key step when genes are read and found that g...

11-11-01 A vampire-like bacteria that leeches onto（对纠缠不休） specific other bacteria -- including certain human pathogens -- has the potential to serve as a living antibiotic for a range of infectious diseases, a new study indicates. The bacterium, Micav...

11-10-13 An international team -- led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany -- has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history. This marks the first time sci...