As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness, which can be made worse by conditions...

(Hokkaido University) A nanosheet made of organic polymers has been developed to prevent the drying and deforming of biological samples,...

Credit: Ana Carnaval City College of New York biodiversity expert Ana Carnaval co-heads an interdisciplinary team of scientists that won...

(Wake Forest University) Within the next century, rising ocean temperatures around the Galápagos Islands are expected to make the water...

Little fungi pack a punch: "Magic mushrooms" of the Psilocybe species produce psychoactive compounds that alter perception when ingested. Recently,...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 25, 2017) - Dr. Richard A. McIndoe, bioinformatics expert and associate director of the...

An extensive exercise to map genetic variation in Sweden has found 33 million genetic variants, 10 million of which are...

Credit: Caleb Doll, Broadie Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Fragile X syndrome--the most common heritable cause of autism spectrum disorder--is something of...

Credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis The Public Strawberry Breeding Program at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues in California and...

(CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Aug. 25, 2017) - The Structural Genomics Consortium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

New Haven, Conn.-- Yale experts and their partners in a national research consortium have identified several genes and gene clusters...

Credit: University of Utah Health As the opioid crisis escalates, the science behind addiction remains poorly understood. To address this...

Credit: Bryce Richter/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- "Gut bacteria get to use a lot of our food before we do," says...

Nicole Steinmetz, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for...

Credit: Shutterstock/Argonne National Laboratory Instead of hauling food waste to landfills, we might want to use that organic waste to...

Credit: Seth Dixon / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Aug. 24, 2017) Despite being at an increased...

Credit: National Cancer Institute The Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) today unanimously approved...

Credit: The Authors. BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and CARDIFF, UK -- A new Java-based application for Android tablets that provides neurosurgeons...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - August 23, 2017 - UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report for the first time that...

Men with localized prostate cancer who received androgen deprivation therapy, a hormone treatment, were at significantly higher risk of heart...