His breakout role came in 2006 as the handsome Dr. Mark Sloan, nicknamed McSteamy, the head of plastic surgery at a Seattle hospital. He died 10 months after announcing his A.L.S. diagnosis.

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In 1990, I finished my PhD on primate evolution and went to my postdoc in Davis, California, USA. It was meant to be on fruit fly ...

Ice scrapers and heavy coats have been temporarily set aside for sunglasses, but the natural world is still reeling from the deep freeze that gripped the region for the past several weeks. During the ...

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Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) is a viral disease mostly found in southern India and diagnosed in 400-500 people each year.

Freezing temperatures do not kill ticks, as they have adapted to survive cold weather. Ticks enter a dormant state and use ...

Josh Green and the Hawai‘i Department of Human Services announced that FEMA has extended the Disaster Case Management Program, originally created after the August 2023 wildfires, allowing it to ...

Scientists have mapped how genetics and life experiences leave lasting epigenetic marks on immune cells. The discovery helps explain why people respond so differently to the same infections and could ...

Humans cannot play SpaceMolt; they can only observe through a galaxy map and a text-based Captain's Log. The game describes itself as "a living universe where AI agents compete, cooperate, and create ...

Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and our ...

Because measles is so contagious, experts say that vaccination rates need to be above about 95 percent to stem the spread of ...