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TORONTO, ON (March 27, 2018) - The Gairdner Foundation is pleased to announce the 2018 Canada Gairdner Award laureates, recognizing...

Credit: L. Weinhard, EMBL Rome For the first time, EMBL* researchers have captured microglia nibbling on brain synapses. Their findings...

Credit: Marcelo Brito While people tend to describe tropical oceanic islands as 'paradises on Earth' and associate them with calm...

(PHILADELPHIA) -- Skin melanoma, a particularly insidious cancer, accounts for the vast majority skin cancer deaths and is one of...

Credit: UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- While most of the country is focused on basketball this time of year, March means...

Flint children's blood lead levels were nearly three times higher almost a decade before the year of the Flint water...

Credit: Shay Ohayon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed an endoscope as thin as a human hair...

Credit: Indiana University Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science INDIANAPOLIS -- Scientist-clinicians from the Indiana University Center for Health...

Each day, normal human cell tissues express a protein known as p53 that wages war against potential malignancies. However, between...

Credit: Christina Schädel Controlling greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades could substantially reduce the consequences of carbon releases from...

Credit: Dr Zelinda Engelbrecht, Ms Therese van Wyk at the University of Johannesburg. A new family of very promising silver-based...

Credit: Arsenii Zhdanov TAMPA, Fla. (March 26, 2018)- The often costly, time consuming process of obtaining bloodwork and urinalysis could...

In the United States, one infant is born every 15 minutes with withdrawal symptoms after being exposed to opioids before...

This story begins in the kelp forest and ends with a very important climate change message: All is not lost...

Koalas are one of Australia's iconic animals, but they have been hard hit by an epidemic of Chlamydia infections contributing...

Credit: Credit: Christian Dinkel DULUTH, Minnesota--A paper published this week in the journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters is the first...

Credit: OIST Neurons in the brain form tangled webs of connections. Within these webs, cells communicate with each other to...

Around half of vision impairment in Western Europe is preventable, according to a new study published in the British Journal...

Credit: Natalay Kouprina, email: [email protected] Before a conclusive link between the SDs and the cardiovascular diseases can be made, further...

Forty million miles of major roads crisscross the Earth's continents -- enough to circle the planet 1,600 times. For humans,...