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Montreal, September 27, 2017 - Mado Desforges is a breast-cancer survivor who specializes in adult education, and lately she's added...

Moms may be notorious worriers, but babies of anxious mothers may also spend more time focusing on threats in their...

Credit: See Table Economic losses from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and 76 wildfires in nine Western states, intensified by...

A growing international movement called "Half Earth" calls for preserving 50 percent of the world's biodiversity. In today's Nature News...

A world-leading team of microbiologists, whose work on a novel new way to fight TB infections shows great promise, has...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 27, 2017-Pharmaceutical companies developing Orphan Drugs are increasingly partnering with...

Babies classified as low birth weight (under 2.500 grams) are at risk of iron deficiency, which is linked to impaired...

Credit: Randy Carnell/UW Medicine Scientists have created a high-speed method to generate thousands of different, small, stable proteins from scratch...

(James Cook University) A collaborative research project involving James Cook University and the University of Queensland indicates high rates of...

Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) The fauna of deep seabed tends to be relatively unknown due to the difficulty of...

Credit: Photo by G.L. Kohuth EAST LANSING, Mich. - Just as sequencing the human genome has netted major health and...

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection...

New funding awarded to the University of Hawaii (UH) may lead to solution to a compelling dilemma -- a way...

As part of a major, multi-institutional, multidisciplinary assault against myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a highly debilitating and poorly understood...

Memory acts like an anchor, reminding us of past experiences that have made us who we are today. Attempts to...

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma research team led by Ann West, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in...

Credit: Amanda Shell, UH-JABSOM University of Hawaii vaccine researcher Axel Lehrer, PhD, has received a nearly $6.3 million grant to...

Some 10 million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's disease -- a debilitating condition that causes degeneration of brain nerve cells...

New research by the University of Kent, Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology shows that citizen scientists...

Credit: (Photo: TUM/J. Geist) The silting of rivers and streams leads to problems for fish, mussels, and other aquatic organisms...