12-04-19 Lone Star ticks, which are notorious carriers of many diseases including cytauxzoonosis, or bobcat fever, have been spreading across the nation in recent years. As a result, cats across much of the country are now exposed to the deadly disease. Univ...

12-04-05 It has long been recognized that autism runs in families, suggesting a substantial（大量的，实质的） genetic component to the disease. Yet few genes have so far been identified and the underlying genetic architecture of autism -- that is, how many g...

12-03-28 Use of a patient's bone marrow cells for treating chronic ischemic（缺血性的） heart failure did not result in improvement on most measures of heart function, according to a study appearing in JAMA. The study is being published early online to coinc...

12-03-27 In the Spring and Autumn Period, Kind Jing of the state of Jin fell ill. One night he dreamed that the diease turned into two small figures talking beside him. One said, I'm afraid the doctor will hurt us. The other said, Dont worry. We can hide abo...

12-03-23 Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia（痴呆） may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, instead of in other ways proposed by scientists, such as by propagating in all directions, according...

12-03-07 A town in northern Australia has been invaded by more than 250,000 bats, prompting warnings of a potentially fatal disease related to rabies. 澳大利亚北部一个城镇被25万多只蝙蝠侵袭，可能是某种跟狂犬病相关的致命疾病存在的征兆。 Hundreds of thousands...

12-03-05 Researchers have discovered critical new details about the structure of a virus that causes potentially fatal brain swelling（肿胀） and paralysis in children, pointing toward designs for antiviral drugs to treat the disease. The virus, called enter...

12-02-16 Prions（小蛋白粒） , the much-maligned proteins most commonly known for causing mad cow disease, are commonly used in yeast to produce beneficial traits in the wild. Moreover, such traits can be passed on to subsequent generations and eventually bec...

12-02-03 Caffeine consumption has long been associated with decreased risk of liver disease and reduced fibrosis（纤维化） in patients with chronic liver disease. Now, newly published research confirms that coffee caffeine consumption reduces the risk of adv...

12-01-31 Wildlife health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society have published evidence which supports the conclusion that Mongolian gazelles（瞪羚） -- one of the most populous large land mammals on the planet -- are not a reservoir of foot-and-mout...