Credit: Greenpeace DURHAM, N.C. — China's plan to ramp up production of new chemicals and synthetic fuels made from coal...

Credit: XU Yunyuan The ability of plants to tolerate chilling stress is fundamental in determining the growing season and geographical...

From middle-age, the brains of obese individuals display differences in white matter similar to those in lean individuals ten years...

New Rochelle, May 31, 2016–An innovative model for determining a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) overcomes many...

INDIANAPOLIS — The visible impacts of depression and stress that can be seen in a person's face — and contribute...

Credit: Brianna Jeska People are born with brains riddled with excess neural connections. Those are slowly pruned back until early...

Credit: University of Georgia Athens, Ga. – University of Georgia researchers, with colleagues from the University of Tokyo, have identified...

Imagine a nurse who gets the flu while working at a hospital. He goes home to recover — and an...

Credit: Carla Possamai, Muriqui Project of Caratinga In a vulnerable forest in southeastern Brazil, where the air was once thick...

A University of Central Florida cancer researcher has discovered a way to kill spreading breast cancer cells and her new...

A new cellular signal discovered by a team of scientists at the University of Chicago with scientists from Tel Aviv...

Columbus, Ohio – When retroviruses such as HIV infect a cell, they first make a copy of their RNA genome...

Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute. Extreme ups and downs in systolic blood pressure may be just as deadly as...

Credit: Sam Droege, U.S. Geological Survey As bees' social behavior evolved, their complex chemical communication systems evolved in concert, according...

Credit: Lauren Gibson / Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at Vanderbilt University headed by Stevenson Professor...

Credit: Sam Ogden BOSTON – In people with chronic infections or cancer, disease-fighting T cells tend to behave like an...

Credit: Jeff Leinert, NHGRI How well cancer patients fared after chemotherapy was affected by their social interaction with other patients...

IMAGE: A new study from The Scripps Research Institute and Duke University Medical Center reveals the three-dimensional structure of a...

TORONTO, July 27, 2016 – A team of Toronto scientists has found similarities in brain impairments in children with autism...

According to the World Health Organization, depression is a major cause of disease burden worldwide, affecting an estimated 350 million...