The plant disease fire blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is dreaded by fruit growers. It affects apple and ...

Credit: Courtesy of Drexel University Your brain's reward pathways become active during art-making activities like doodling, according to a new ...

In about half of all patients with rare hereditary disorders, it is still unclear what exact position of the genome ...

Credit: Photo by Ramon Leon Palmer amaranth is widely considered to be one of the most damaging and difficult to ...

Credit: Geology, Victoria A. Hudspith and Claire M. Belcher Boulder, Colo., USA: One of the main types of fossil used ...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Although current treatments for iron-deficiency anemia can be effective, they commonly fail because pediatric patients ...

Credit: Eddy Perez, LSU Biologists have always been fascinated by the diversity and changeability of life on Earth and have ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University are paving the way for more precision in determining surgical margins for ...

Credit: (Illustration by Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga) CHAPEL HILL, NC - UNC School of Medicine researchers have cracked a long-standing mystery about ...

Older adults with elevated levels of brain-clogging plaques -- but otherwise normal cognition -- experience faster mental decline suggestive of ...

Credit: Christian Lohrmann, Jason Lewis, Wolfgang Weber, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; MabVax Therapeutics DENVER, Colo. - Pancreatic cancer is ...

There has been no known link between diabetes and vitamin A - until now. A new study suggests that the ...

Credit: Image: Mezzenga Lab / ETH Zurich The news story made a big splash: in January 2016 ETH researchers Professor ...

Exactly when and where individual neurons develop is as important to our understanding of brain diseases as the underlying genetics, ...

Credit: Timothy Mosca Many neurological diseases are malfunctions of synapses, or the points of contact between neurons that allow senses ...

TAMPA, Fla. (June 13, 2017) - Testicular cancer is relatively rare with only 8,850 cases expected this year in the ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- For many patients, participating in gene therapy clinical trials isn't an option because their immune system recognizes ...

A team of scientists has discovered a new crystal form of DDT that is more effective against insects than the ...

(Boston) -- Impairment of a particular gene raises increases susceptibility to opioid addiction liability as well as vulnerability to binge ...

WASHINGTON (May 15, 2017) -- Male mice have much greater brain distress in the week following a traumatic brain injury ...