The first study using cultivation independent sequencing of the microorganisms in the adolescent male urinary tract has revealed that the composition of microbial communities colonizing the penis in young men depends upon their circumcision status and …
Efforts to understand how the aging process affects the brain and cognition have expanded beyond simply comparing younger and older adults. “Everybody ages differently. By looking at genetic variations and individual differences in markers of vascular …
Infants born to women who used the anti-HIV drug tenofovir as part of an anti-HIV drug regimen during pregnancy do not weigh less at birth and are not of shorter length than infants born to women who used anti-HIV drug regimens that do not include teno…
The University of Michigan’s second human embryonic stem cell line has just been placed on the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s registry, making the cells available for federally-funded research. It is the second of the stem cell lines derived at U…
Researchers at the Perinatology Research Branch of the National Institutes of Health, located at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Detroit Medical Center, have demonstrated that a nanotechnology-based drug treatment in newborn rabbi…
Scientists have identified which strains of the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, the cause of toxoplasmosis, are most strongly associated with premature births and severe birth defects in the United States. The researchers used a new blood test developed by…
A study published online in Environmental Health Perspectives reports that researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered how normal stem cells can turn into cancer stem cells and spur tumor growth through exposure to arsenic. Evid…
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered how exposure to arsenic can turn normal stem cells into cancer stem cells and spur tumor growth. Inorganic arsenic, which affects the drinking water of millions of people worldwide, has b…
Giving birth takes hours longer today than it did 50 years ago in the USA, according to a report issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The authors wrote that most likely, changes in delivery room practice, as well as some other factors hav…
Peyronie’s Disease, also known as curvature of the penis, Induratio penis plastic, or Chronic Inflammation of the Tunica Albuginea (CITA), is a condition in which the penis, when erect, bends abnormally. Fibrous scar tissue (fibrous plaques) develops u…
