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UMD geologists uncovered evidence of a section of seafloor that sank into the Earth's mantle when dinosaurs roamed the Earth; it's located off the west coast of South America in a zone known as the East Pacific Rise.
Novel research supported by NCI could lead to more specific predictive disease models
A new University of Kansas study reveals parents seeking health care information for their children trust AI more than health care professionals when the author is unknown, and parents rate AI generated text as credible, moral and trustworthy.
Hypertension and amyloid plaques can separately cause dementia. Having both increases a person’s odds of developing cognitive decline, a new study finds
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For more than 20 years, Linda Beeber — a UNC nurse scientist — has studied the mental health of more than 1,800 mothers of infants and toddlers. She was one of the first people in the nation to utilize the mother-child dyad in her studies on maternal depression.
A new study by investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard affiliate, demonstrates that vitamin D can protect some people with colorectal cancer by perking up the immune system’s vigilance against tumor cells.
Early to bed, early to rise may make women less prone to depression, according to a new study that explored the link between sleeping and mood disorders.
MSU scientists have identified an early cause of intestinal inflammation, one of the first stages of inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, which afflict around 11 percent of the world?s population.
New research uses state-of-the-art imaging to illuminate how a once-obscure cluster of proteins finds its way to genes, what happens when it gets there and how a new generation of cancer therapeutics might disrupt the process.