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Credit: Jana Sönksen / Swiss TPH Where air pollution is high, the level of transportation noise is usually also elevated. Not only air pollution negatively...

Mathematicians have created a new model - of a variety commonly found in the world of finance - to show how to harvest a species...

Halloween is just around the corner, and some people will celebrate by watching scary movies about brain-eating zombies. But even more frightening are real-life parasites...

Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute have created the first comprehensive summary of all genes known to be involved in human cancer, the "Cancer Gene...

Credit: Please credit Nick Greatorex Davies New research published in the Nature journal Scientific Data shows how the public can play a vital role in...

2018 NCRI Cancer Conference - the UK's largest cancer conference is only a few weeks away. It will take place from Sunday 4 to Tuesday...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Oct. 22, 2018 -- Dr. Daniel D. Von Hoff, Distinguished Professor and Physician-In-Chief of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate...

Credit: Kevin Patrick Robbins, McMaster University HAMILTON, Oct. 24, 2018 - Researchers at McMaster University have solved a vexing problem by engineering surface coatings that...

A new study in the Journal of Public Health indicates that advertising for alcohol is common in British television, and may be a potential driver...

Spending long periods in space not only leads to muscle atrophy and reductions in bone density, it also has lasting effects on the brain. However,...

SAN ANTONIO--Adults in their 40s and 50s with higher levels of cortisol--a hormone linked to stress--performed worse on memory and other cognitive tasks than peers...

Despite the conventional belief that for women giving birth "once a cesarean always a cesarean," vaginal delivery after cesarean -- also known as "trial of...

Credit: Dymecki lab/Harvard Medical School Scientists trying to identify the roots of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of death in U.S. infants...

Credit: None We know that antibiotics treat bacterial infections. We also know why they work. Tetracycline antibiotics, for example, stop bacteria from making protein. Like...

Credit: Virginia Institute of Marine Science. An annual model-based report on "dead-zone" conditions in the Chesapeake Bay during 2018 indicates that the total volume of...