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LOWELL, Mass. - Vast amounts of toxic mercury are accumulating in the Arctic tundra, threatening the health and well-being of...

RMIT University scientists in Melbourne, Australia, have led an international collaboration that potentially unlocks better treatment of viral diseases, including...

A new jigsaw piece in the evolution of green algae has been identified by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum together with...

Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School The Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed), the only regional trade body for the medical devices,...

Individuals who suffered multiple types of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences - physical, sexual or emotional abuse or other stresses such...

Credit: LSU LSU has received one of the competitive federal grants funded from penalties paid by parties responsible for the...

A technique borrowed from neuroscience to see through brain tissue is helping scientists to see the fine structure of the...

In the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a research group at Uppsala...

New research shows that the number of illustrations presented in a storybook can influence preschool children's ability to learn words...

Credit: Photo: Chris Goodfellow, Gladstone Institutes E-Scape Bio announced an extension of its Series A funding to a total of...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center The treatment of osteosarcoma, the most common tumor of bone, is challenging. A study led...

Liver transplant surgery is among highest-risk cardiac surgery New risk score app may guide preventive treatment and who gets donor...

At its summer session during the annual meeting of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Halle (Saale), the...

Everyone knows that time is critical when performing life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation to someone in cardiac arrest -- the sooner CPR...

(Rice University) Rice University scientists generalize the synthesis of aminating agents to simplify the design and manufacture of drugs and...

WHAT Commentary :"Threats to Information Security -- Public Health Implications", New England Journal of Medicine WHO William J. Gordon, MD...

Poor diet and a lack of physical activity are major contributors to the world's obesity epidemic, but researchers have also...

Fundamental new insights into the functioning of the immune system and a new approach to treating autoimmune diseases: these are...

However, it is presently unclear how such elders are able to stop the natural cognitive decline associated with old ageing....

Credit: Bend Dantzer Those young squirrels now scampering around your neighbourhood were born in this year's earliest litters and are...