Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can lead to long-term health problems including liver damage, liver failure, cirrhosis, liver cancer and even death. These outcomes are...
Dogs extract words from continuous speech using similar computations and brain regions as humans do, a new study combining EEG and fMRI by researchers from...
The IdeaCredit: DelGiorno, et. al. The Idea Pioneering research from scientists at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences and the Salk Institute for...
A decade ago, genome sequencing revealed a big surprise: about 50 percent of human cancers are linked to mutations in what are known as epigenetic...
URBANA, Ill. – Postmenopausal women have increased risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease due to loss of estrogen from metabolic changes. A high-fat diet further...
A new study published in Nature reports on a new antibiotic that binds to the ribosome of bacterial cells and stops drug-resistant pathogens from making...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Immunotherapy using checkpoint inhibitors can work well to treat cancer, but only a minority of patients respond to therapy. Researchers at the...
Public health messages such as in the image (associated with this release) — designed to reduce parents’ purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages marketed as fruit drinks or...
In a dry year in the West, when the world turns crispy and cracked, rivers and streams with their green, lush banks become a lifesaving...
In drought years and when marine heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, late-migrating juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon of California’s Central Valley are the ultimate survivors....
From the Florida Keys to the Caribbean Sea, coral reefs, the complex ecosystems that house 25% of marine species, are dying from a novel infection...
When a massive wildfire tears through a landscape, what happens to the animals?Credit: Brashares Lab, UC Berkeley When a massive wildfire tears through a landscape,...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (October 28, 2021) — The California Academy of Sciences has been awarded a $255,400 grant to generate high-resolution images of nearly all...
Humans like truffles, as do many mammals. Now new evidence suggests that birds may also seek out and disperse these ecologically important fungi.Credit: University of...
LA JOLLA—Mitochondria are known as the powerhouses of the cell, generating the energy that’s needed to fuel the functions that our cells carry out. Now,...
