Biology

Credit: Intermountain Medical Center A new five-year study of nearly 1,600 patients finds that genetic testing can help determine the...

Credit: Felipe Franca More than 403 million hectares of tropical forests worldwide have been earmarked for timber concessions with selective...

Credit: Mike Ward URBANA, Ill. - It's open season for Canada geese in Illinois from mid-October to mid-January. Unfortunately for...

Credit: None A microscopic 'pen' that is able to write structures small enough to trap and harness light using a...

Credit: Dr Andrew Weeks For the first time, a breeding technique known as genetic rescue has been shown to increase...

Health scientists at the University of Leicester and University of Nottingham have heralded the discovery of a gene associated with...

Credit: Purdue University image/Erin Easterling) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have demonstrated how to decode what the human brain is...

Credit: Ben-Gurion U. Israel BEER-SHEVA, Israel...Oct. 23, 2017 - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have begun to discover...

Credit: Ernesto Llamas Various human nervous system diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases, are...

A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered how uncontrolled vitamin A metabolism in...

Credit: The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (October 2017) -- To date, scientists are increasingly studying the structure of...

The iron concentration in lakes is increasing in many parts of northern Europe, including Sweden. This has been shown in...

Credit: Joan Nichols. The microgravity environment of the International Space Station impacts nearly every system within the human body. Researchers...

Credit: Alberto Búrquez Montijo, Instituto de Ecología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Visitors to Mexico and the U.S. Southwest can't...

CORNING, N.Y. -- Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced it will exhibit Corning Valor™ Glass at CPhI Worldwide in Frankfurt, Germany,...

Geneticists from the University of Geneva have taken an important step towards true predictive medicine. Exploring the links between diseases...

(Technische Universität Dresden) Dr. Michell M. Reimer, group leader at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Cluster of Excellence...

(Portland, Ore.) October 23, 2017 - Understanding the puzzling and complex nature of concussion and how to treat it will...

ANN ARBOR -- Despite widespread concern about potential human health impacts from hydraulic fracturing, the lifetime toxic chemical releases associated...

When bacteria enter our body, they kick-start a powerful immune response. But this chain of reactions doesn't fully account for...