Mind-controlled device helps stroke patients retrain brains to move paralyzed hands

Latin-Americans with different Native-American ancestry show different health risks

Chemical array draws out malignant cells to guide individualized cancer treatment

Dramatic shift in gut microbes and their metabolites seen after weight loss surgery

Scientists identify protein linked to chronic heart failure - Researchers in Japan have identified a receptor protein on the surface of heart cells that promotes chronic heart failure. The study, "Corticotropin releasing hormone receptor 2 exacerbates chronic cardiac dysfunction," which will be published May 26 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggests that inhibiting this protein could help treat a disease that affects more than 20 million people worldwide.

FDA approves cancer drug for personalized immunotherapy approach

Designer viruses stimulate the immune system to fight cancer

Bioelectricity new weapon to fight dangerous infection - Changing the natural electrical signaling that exists in cells outside the nervous system can improve resistance to life-threatening bacterial infections, according to new research from Tufts University biologists. The researchers found that administering drugs, including those already used in humans for other purposes, to make the cell interior more negatively charged strengthens tadpoles' innate immune response to E. coli infection ...

Researchers studying century-old drug in potential new approach to autism