Health

Credit: Kvon et al./Cell 2016 Snakes lost their limbs over 100 million years ago, but scientists have struggled to identify...

Credit: BIDMC BOSTON – Conventional medical wisdom has long held that placebo effects depend on patients’ belief they are getting...

Scientists have discovered a new way to look for ageing cells across a wide range of biological materials; the new...

MAYWOOD, IL – As demand for the widely used blood thinning drug heparin continues to grow, experts worry of possible...

Credit: David Wendell A University of Cincinnati scientist has engineered an environmentally friendly technology to zap outbreak-causing viruses and bacteria...

In a recent study conducted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Harvard Medical School, running in minimalist...

In the amphibian world, the axolotl is the replacement-parts king. This is the axolotl, a remarkable model organism capable of...

More than 700,000 microscopic fibres could be released into waste water during each use of a domestic washing machine, with...

In a UT Southwestern Medical Center study, (l-r) Dr. Philipp Scherer, Dr. Yi Zhu, and Dr. Shangang Zhao found interesting...

A large, new study shows no evidence that exercise may reduce a woman’s risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). The...

The first Zika virus-related death in the continental U.S. occurred in June of this year, but even now, months later,...

An international team of scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics...

Major League Baseball players have become overwhelmingly overweight and obese during the last quarter century, say health researchers. Credit: WikipediaDavid...

Every day 353,000 children are born around the world, a majority of them in developing countries where there is a...

A new scientific study conducted by a team of leading geneticists has characterized how cells know when to stop translating...

Despite the fact that influenza leads to more hospitalizations and deaths among children than any other vaccine-preventable disease, parents frequently...

Could we get rid of mosquitoes without polluting the environment? Yes, we can, say researchers. The BinAB toxin, produced in...

By adopting a walking routine and other moderate physical activities, older adults can recover from a major disability more quickly,...

Biologists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have discovered that after bumblebees drink a small droplet of really sweet...

A team of Michigan State University researchers has found that consuming an omega-3 fatty acid called DHA, or docosahexaenoic acid,...