Credit: Miljan Simonovic. Humans need eight essential trace elements for good health, and one of them is selenium – a ...

Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan — Maintaining a good balance of iron in the body is necessary for health: too ...

Credit: Russell Fletcher & John Ngai, UC Berkeley Adult stem cells have the ability to transform into many types of ...

Credit: Julius Csotonyi New research from University of Alberta paleontologists shows one of North America's most broadly identified dinosaur species, ...

Credit: Gary Kramer/USFWS (public domain) Mallards — the familiar green-headed ducks of city parks — are one of a group ...

Credit: Dr Graham Beards Bacteriophages, known informally as phages, are viruses that can attack and kill specific bacteria. They occur ...

Army medical research funding has supported the development of innovative technologies to assist injured Service members and improve their quality ...

Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (October 30, 2017) … Each year, the United States suffers an extreme shortage of ...

Credit: Bioinformatics Russian scientists have created an interactive world map of human gut microbiota potential to resist antibiotics (resistome). Their ...

Toronto, Canada — A pair of new studies further strengthen scientific understanding of the links between what a child experiences ...

A paper published this month in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society details the development and utility of a ...

A common heart drug may stop the progression of angiosarcoma, a cancer of the inner lining of blood vessels, according ...

A study recently published in the online version of the European Journal of Nutrition has found that people who include ...

Credit: VaquitaCPR The world is marking International Save the Vaquita Day on July 8 by supporting VaquitaCPR's ambitious, emergency plan ...

Credit: Oscar Sanisidro (Vertebrate Paleontology. Biodiversitiy Institute, University of Kansas) The oldest studied rodent fauna in this work, which inhabited ...

Credit: Penn State To meet increasing consumer demand for heritage-breed turkeys to be the centerpiece of holiday and other meals, ...

Credit: Tollkuhn Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have opened a black ...

Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery A study at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that patients benefit from a one-on-one ...

Credit: Tom Stubbs/ University of Bristol A team of researchers from the University of Bristol studying the 'living fossil' Sphenodon ...

Credit: Martin Bulla Parents need to synchronize the care for their offspring. This leads to extreme and unexpected diversity in ...