Up to sixteen weeks of intermittent fasting without otherwise having to count calories helps fight obesity and other metabolic disorders....

Researchers have shown that genetic diversity plays a key role in enabling drug resistance to evolve. Scientists at the Wellcome...

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL - Oct. 17, 2017 - In findings that open the door to a...

Credit: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center JOHNSTON, Iowa, and ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Oct. 17, 2017 - DuPont Pioneer and the...

The costs of chocolate production around the world Every year, more than five million family farms in countries such as...

Credit: Matthew Hurteau With warm, dry summers comes a deadly caveat for the western United States: wildfires. Scientists say the...

Credit: University of Houston An obesity intervention for Hispanic middle school students led by researchers at the University of Houston...

Mars, Inc., UC Davis and partners have launched a crowdsourcing initiative to solve the problem of aflatoxin contamination of crops....

A Northwestern University research team has discovered how scalding heat and tissue injury activate an ancient "pain" receptor in simple...

Credit: Georgia Tech / Eva Dyer If brain imaging could be compared to Google Earth, neuroscientists would already have a...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 17, 2017 - Many women do not follow the guidelines to prevent pregnancy for an 18-month period following...

Signal Detection Theory is a popular and well-established idea that has influenced behavioral science for around 50 years. Essentially, the...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Loading nanofiber sutures with vitamin D induces the production of an infection-fighting peptide, new research shows. The...

ORANGE, Calif. - Chapman University has earned the largest federal research grant in the university's history. The National Institutes of...

Differences in insurance account for a substantial proportion of the excess risk of death from breast cancer faced by black...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Oct. 16, 2017 -- Glioblastoma is the most aggressive cancer that originates in the brain. Current therapies...

Researchers investigating pediatric low-grade gliomas (PLGG), the most common type of brain tumor in children, have discovered key biological differences...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center V. Craig Jordan, Ph.D., professor of Breast Medical Oncology, has been elected to the National...

Credit: Image courtesy McMaster University Hamilton, Ont. (Oct. 16, 2017) - Killing cancer cells indirectly by powering up fat cells...

Yokohama, Japan - October 16, 2017 - New research found race and specific socioeconomic factors to have a significant influence...