New Haven, Conn. -- Scientists have uncovered two closely related cytokines -- molecules involved in cell communication and movement --...

Alison Butler has never met Canadian chemist and philanthropist Alfred Bader, but they have something important in common. Harvard-educated Bader...

Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University Biochemical engineers at the Johns Hopkins University have used sequences of DNA molecules to induce...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Solitary weasel-like animals called tayra might look pretty harmless, but some may actually be...

Credit: Kent State University The mental and physical stress on individuals caring for elderly loved ones with chronic and terminal...

Credit: The Morton Arboretum If you had been in northern Canada 45 million years ago, you might have encountered the...

Credit: Jonson et al 2017 Since the late 1990s the share of diesel cars in the EU has risen to...

Painful side effects from cancer medicines could be tackled with a drug that eases the effects of jetlag, research suggests....

Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found that thirdhand-smoke (THS)...

Credit: WEHI.TV/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research An international research team has shown for the first time that...

Credit: Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois Political and agricultural leaders gathered at the University of Illinois today to see transformative work...

For several years, medical researchers, doctors and dieticians have known that a low carbohydrate diet and plentiful fat can prevent...

Amsterdam and Heidelberg, 15 September 2017 - SourceData (sourcedata.embo.org), an open platform from EMBO, designed to make published scientific data...

Insects and plants have an important ancient defence mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their...

Credit: Michelle Lampe/Wolf Science Center A good example of the connection between cause and effect, is that an object which...

These are the findings of a representative study recently conducted by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) on...

SILVERTHORNE, CO - September 15, 2017 - Keystone Symposia will convene its first conference on the important topic of "Maternal-Fetal...

Credit: Joshua A. Lewis Popular portrayals of "nature reclaiming civilization" in flood-damaged New Orleans, Louisianna, neighborhoods romanticize an urban ecology...

Credit: David Kust/Entomological Society of America Annapolis, MD; September 11, 2017--A much greater number of monarch butterflies perished in a...

Credit: University of Louisville LOUISVILLE, Ky. - UofL gastroenterologist Matthew Cave, M.D., believes that chemicals we breathe, consume or come...