Reference Terms
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hypercholesterolemia
Hypercholesterolemia (literally: high blood cholesterol) is the presence of high levels of cholesterol in the blood.
Note: The above text is excerpted from the Wikipedia article "Hypercholesterolemia", which has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Related Stories
1
2
Science News
April 24, 2025
Apr. 24, 2025 — Female bonobos team up to suppress male aggression against them -- the first evidence of animals deploying this strategy. In 85% of observed coalitions, females collectively targeted males, forcing ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a new report. The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member of Haidomyrmecinae -- an extinct subfamily that ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can leap 10 feet high even though it doesn't have ...
Latest Headlines
updated 12:56 pm ET
Apr. 24, 2025 — A new bone marrow imaging technique could change treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and musculoskeletal ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Irritable bowel syndrome, chronic itching, asthma and migraine are in many cases hard-to-treat conditions. They have in common that they are triggered by an excessive immune response -- which in ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Scientists developed a machine-learning tool that can teach itself, with minimal external guidance, to differentiate between aerial images of flowering and nonflowering grasses -- an advance that ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Plant-based seafood alternatives should have similar flavors, textures and nutritional content to the foods they mimic. And recreating the properties of fried calamari rings, which have a neutral ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — New mechanisms discovered that show how development-dependent disruptions in mitochondrial function lead to premature skeletal ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Researchers trained and validated a deep learning model that can detect subtle changes across post-treatment brain scans and forecast glioma ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Prostate cancer has distinct genetic properties in different groups of men that could be targeted to improve patient outcomes, new research ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Humans are better than current AI models at interpreting social interactions and understanding social dynamics in moving scenes. Researchers believe this is because AI neural networks were inspired ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Researchers in the field of exposomics explain how cutting-edge technologies are unlocking this biological archive, ushering in a new era of disease prevention and personalized ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain ...