A high-fat diet increases the incidence of colorectal cancer. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow Semir Beyaz and collaborators from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered...
Durham, NC – Scientists are reporting promising results in the early stages of a clinical trial designed to gauge the feasibility of a new type...
The trillions of bacteria living in our guts play a crucial role in our ability to digest food and fight off disease. All other animals...
Three new publications by Inclusive Futures have revealed how people with disabilities were not only disproportionately and ‘catastrophically’ excluded from COVID-19 pandemic planning and relief...
Living or biological systems cannot be easily understood using the standard laws of physics, such as thermodynamics, as scientists would for gases, liquids or solids....
Tropical forests are some of the most threatened ecosystems on Earth, largely due to recent human activities. To better understand how tropical forests responded to...
New research from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators shows why some drugs in clinical trials for treating a form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) often fail...
The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic eruptions over 230 million years ago, a new study reveals.Credit: Pixabay The rise...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Although female giraffes have closer “friends” than male giraffes, male giraffes have more “acquaintances” than females, according to a new study by...
SAN ANTONIO (September 27, 2021) – A version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, has been successfully modified to glow brightly in cells and animal...
Grégoire Courtine doesn’t hesitate to use the word “revolutionary” when describing the emerging field of optogenetics – a technology that uses pulses of light to...
The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by two researchers in Japan to...
Dieter Oesterhelt from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Peter Hegemann from Humboldt University and the U.S. American Karl Deisseroth from Stanford University will receive...
A 25-million-year-old eagle fossil found in South Australia adds to the long evolutionary history of raptors in Australia. Credit: Trevor Worthy, Flinders University A 25-million-year-old...
A tiger shark’s life history is one painted with broad brush strokes. These sharks are generalists of the boldest kind. Found in tropical and subtropical...
