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Credit: Provided by Baycrest Health Sciences Female teenagers living in neighbourhoods with wide salary gaps and a low-income household show...

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a test to quickly and reliably diagnose a rare and severe immune...

Credit: ESF In the megacities that are home to nearly 10 percent of the world's 7.5 billion people, trees provide...

Credit: (Photo: Scholz et al., 2017) The receptor studied by scientists from the universities of Würzburg and Leipzig over the...

Many people report positive health effects from practicing yoga and meditation, and experience both mental and physical benefits from these...

Credit: Copyright: Christian Knobloch, QNP Group, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna Quantum interference and metrology with molecules Even though...

Credit: Tapinos et. al. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Scientists may have identified a new opening to intervene in the process of...

Credit: ETH Zurich Many chemists are currently researching how small carbon molecules, such as methane and methanol, can be used...

Credit: Chanclud and Lacombe A bowl of salad contains more than vitamins and minerals. Plant matter also includes remnants of...

The Finnish company Goodwiller has launched a rapid alcohol test it has developed in collaboration with VTT that measures the...

Credit: Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. Mechanical loading, or forces that stimulate cellular growth for development, is required for creating...

Credit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM When bacteria develop antibiotic resistance, treatment with these medications becomes ineffective. Similarly, tumor cells can...

Credit: John Innes Centre A sophisticated mechanism that allows plant roots to quickly respond to changes in soil conditions has...

Credit: Image adapted from JCI Insight. 2017; 2(16):e93621. doi:10.1172/jci.insight.93621 Retinal amyloid pathology and proof-of-concept imaging trial in Alzheimer's disease Yosef...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Under a microscope, a cell's cytoplasm can resemble a tiny underwater version of New York's Times Square:...

Credit: Steve Shapiro, [email protected] WASHINGTON--A new dietary review of 49 observational and controlled studies finds plant-based vegetarian diets, especially vegan...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst chemist Sankaran "Thai" Thayumanavan has received a three-year, $1.8 million...

Credit: Journal of Consumer Research LAWRENCE -- People are typically averse to wider human faces because they elicit fears of...

Credit: University of Colorado Boulder The microbiome seems ubiquitous: humans and many other species rely on billions of tiny organisms...

Credit: NC State University Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a high-throughput technique that can determine if a...