Vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been made possible by an unprecedented worldwide partnership. But medications against Covid-19 have as yet seen only partial success....
While scrolling through iNaturalist - a social network where professional and citizen scientists share their photographs, in order to map biodiversity observations from across the...
Efforts to eradicate a human parasitic disease are being hampered by dogs eating infected fish, new research shows.Credit: Jared Wilson-Aggarwal Efforts to eradicate a human...
Researchers have discovered the genetic basis for a quirk of the animal kingdom — how ant queens produce broods that are entirely male or female. Credit:...
Ten thousand years ago, just after the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave. They entombed her...
Charlottesville, VA (December 14, 2021). Researchers from four academic neurosurgical centers in Japan found that the parietooccipital fissure, which divides the temporal, occipital, and parietal...
The brain is a remarkably complex and adaptable organ. However, adaptability decreases with age: as new connections between nerve cells in the brain form less...
CHICAGO (December 13, 2021) — The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has appointed Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS, as the new Editor-in-Chief of The Annals of...
Which came first, MHC class I or MHC class II? For decades, it has been debated which of these two similar classes came first in...
Antibiotics cure many bacterial infections. However, some patients suffer a relapse. A research group at the University of Basel has now discovered why some bacteria...
LA JOLLA—A long, long time ago, the BCG vaccine was approved for use against tuberculosis (TB), and it's still given to infants today. For generations,...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Fragile X syndrome, or FXS, a leading genetic cause of autism, affects around one in 4,000 males and one in 6,000 females....
The processor is the brain of a computer - an often-quoted phrase. But processors work fundamentally differently than the human brain. Transistors perform logic operations...
Philadelphia, December 13, 2021 -- Even after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety notice and recall, manufacturing defects in certain cardiac rhythm...
The supply of farmed seafood such as salmon and mussels are projected to drop 16 per cent globally by 2090 if no action is taken...
