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By Al Staropoli | ScienceNOW Daily News When it comes to making sacrifices for their children, some moms put other parents to shame. That's especially true of wormlike amphibians called Boulengerula taitanus, whose eggs hatch in small underground…

Is telling the truth a gut instinct? Scientists have discovered that the electrical rhythm of the stomach shows significant changes when people are lying, as measured by an electrogastrogram, a device similar to an electrocardiogram but that uses…

In their quest for smarter cancer therapies, scientists have often eyed cancer vaccines with interest.

Cystic fibrosis patients exhale more of a gas released by bacterial infections

Article for NIH scientists and researchers.

By Al Staropoli | ScienceNOW Daily News WASHINGTON, D.C.--A combination of subsidies and more aggressive drug cocktails is the most effective way to fight malaria, according to panelists at a global health policy meeting here yesterday sponsored by…

Pioneering the use of information technology in patient care. Although information technology is now common in many hospitals and biomedical laboratories, in the 1950s only a small number of researchers imagined its enormous potential.

We typically learn in school how parents pass along their genes to their children, and how those genes can influence their children's characteristics.