Credit: Image courtesy of Benjamin Winer and Alexander Ploss, Princeton University Department of Molecular Biology Scientists from Princeton University's Department...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Around half of all medications for chronic diseases are not taken as prescribed, costing the U.S. health...

Credit: University of Edinburgh Fresh insights into how zebrafish repair their nerve connections could hold clues to new therapies for...

Scientists developing promising new antibiotics in India, Ireland, France, Switzerland, the US and UK are to share up to US$17.6m...

Credit: David O'Carroll, Lund University New research from Australia and Sweden has shown how a dragonfly's brain anticipates the movement...

From an early age, children are very skilled in imitating the actions of others and are so motivated to do...

Almost 1.2 million violent crimes - homicide, sexual assault, assault, and robbery - were committed in the United States in...

Credit: Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut Mission X: Train like an Astronaut, since its inception in 2011, has morphed...

Credit: Magdalena Steinrück Genes do not exist in isolation. Like beads on a string, they sit next to each other...

St. Paul, Minn. (July 2017)--While beneficial microbes are becoming a more common tool in agriculture, their effectiveness in the field...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Glioblastoma is a primary brain tumor with dismal survival rates, even after treatment with surgery,...

Credit: NYU Langone Health Aging black men are at much greater risk of dying prematurely of colorectal cancer than any...

Credit: Vanderbilt University Powerful molecules can hitch rides on a plentiful human protein and signal tumors to self-destruct, a team...

PHILADELPHIA -- (July 24, 2017) -- A potential new therapeutic strategy for a difficult-to-treat form of ovarian cancer has been...

Credit: Sanjuan Nandin et al., 2017 An international team of scientists has developed a method to rapidly produce specific human...

PHILADELPHIA - Women undergoing daily radiation therapy for breast cancer are commonly told they should not use antiperspirant for fear...

New research offers a possible explanation for why a new type of cancer treatment hasn't been working as expected against...

A new study has uncovered a link between being overweight or obese in adolescence and an increased risk of developing...

Data from a longitudinal study of over 500,000 people in the United Kingdom indicate that having higher levels of the...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA -- A local start-up, life sciences company founded by Dr. Jenny Yang, Regents' Professor of...