Vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been made possible by an unprecedented worldwide partnership. But medications against Covid-19 have as ...

While scrolling through iNaturalist - a social network where professional and citizen scientists share their photographs, in order to map ...

Efforts to eradicate a human parasitic disease are being hampered by dogs eating infected fish, new research shows.Credit: Jared Wilson-Aggarwal ...

Researchers have discovered the genetic basis for a quirk of the animal kingdom — how ant queens produce broods that ...

Ten thousand years ago, just after the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an ...

Charlottesville, VA (December 14, 2021). Researchers from four academic neurosurgical centers in Japan found that the parietooccipital fissure, which divides ...

The brain is a remarkably complex and adaptable organ. However, adaptability decreases with age: as new connections between nerve cells ...

CHICAGO (December 13, 2021) — The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has appointed Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS, as the new ...

Which came first, MHC class I or MHC class II? For decades, it has been debated which of these two ...

Antibiotics cure many bacterial infections. However, some patients suffer a relapse. A research group at the University of Basel has ...

LA JOLLA—A long, long time ago, the BCG vaccine was approved for use against tuberculosis (TB), and it's still given ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Fragile X syndrome, or FXS, a leading genetic cause of autism, affects around one in 4,000 males ...

The processor is the brain of a computer - an often-quoted phrase. But processors work fundamentally differently than the human ...

Philadelphia, December 13, 2021 -- Even after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety notice and recall, manufacturing ...

The supply of farmed seafood such as salmon and mussels are projected to drop 16 per cent globally by 2090 ...

Allergies and many other types of immune system-related diseases originate from an interplay of complex chemical pathways that affect cell ...

In cold conditions, brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat generates heat to keep the body warm. Compared with white ...

Sophisticated CT scanning of the cranium of an Australian fish fossil has given new insights to explain how fish first ...

Fluorescence light microscopy has the unique ability to observe cellular processes over a scale that bridges four orders of magnitude. ...

December 13, 2021 – How did the first chemical reactions get started at the origin of life and what was ...