During development of the digestive system, a complex network of nerves forms around it, creating a "second brain" - the enteric nervous system (ENS) - which controls the movement of food and waste ...

University of Kentucky researchers have developed a new experimental model that could point the way toward more effective Alzheimer's disease treatments by targeting one of the brain's most important ...

BUENOS AIRES - They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named 33 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, as participants in its Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model, which is designed to treat ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected 35 participants for its new, voluntary Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model. Participants include the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico ...

Andrea Califano, PhD, professor of chemical and systems biology at Columbia University, encourages an artificial intelligence (AI) approach to cancer immunotherapy, where AI models predict the genes ...

Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases. KJ Muldoon was born with a rare genetic disorder, ...

More than a decade ago, researchers launched the BabySeq Project, a pilot program to return newborn genomic sequencing results to parents and measure the effects on newborn care. Today, over 30 ...