In Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia, microglia-the brain's immune defenders-can act as both protectors and aggressors, shaping how the disease progresses.

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Sarasota mom says the government shutdown is preventing her son from receiving potentially life saving treatment.

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For clinicians, managing recurrent aphthous stomatitis means looking beyond the ulcer to triggers and systemic links.

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

Scientists have uncovered possible genetic risk factors for cancers and psychiatric disorders in a pioneering project to map ...

Twin research tells us many things about the biological and behavioral aspects of diseases like Turner syndrome and how they ...

Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

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Experts can now predict the transmission rate of a bacterial E. coli infection in the same way as they can for viral pandemics, which can help battling treatment-resistant infections in the future.