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Credit: Hui Lab, UC San Diego Researchers from the University of California San Diego have identified an unexpected mechanism that could help determine whether a...

Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Carla Ng PITTSBURGH (July 10, 2018) ... Persistent organic pollutants--or POPs--skulk around the environment threatening human health through direct contact, in..

According to the World Health Organisation, about 88 percent of premature deaths in low- and middle-income countries in Asia can be attributed to air pollution....

Here's the neuroscience of a neglected banana (and a lot of other things in daily life): whenever you look at its color - green in...

Only about one-third of young children in the U.S. receive recommended screenings or surveillance designed to catch developmental delays. Findings reveal wide variations in rates...

Researchers have developed a 3D map of the gene interactions that play a key role in cardiovascular disease, a study in eLife reports. The map...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Increasingly, doctors are treating lung cancer based on the genetic rearrangements driving the disease. For example, cancers that are...

The Israeli Isotopia Company, in collaboration with Prof. Rachela Popovtzer of Bar-Ilan University, is conducting a joint study to develop a radioactive marker, based on...

Tsukuba, Japan - The cell is the basic biological unit of all known living organisms, and the core of the cell is the nucleus, which...

CALGARY, Canada, July 10, 2018 -Epimeron, Inc., a world-class provider of gene discovery and biosynthetic pathway optimization, today announced the isolation and characterization of an...

Credit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa - Proteins must fold in a specific way to function. This is often assisted by molecular chaperones--small proteins whose job is...

Credit: UNSW Scientists from UNSW Sydney and the UK have discovered that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) hijacks a small molecule from the host cell...

Credit: Kyoto University / Takashi Hayakawa Koalas have long captured people's hearts and minds thanks to their cuddly features and seemingly relaxed demeanor. Now, in...

The American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) today released the first feline-specific anesthesia guidelines to the veterinary community, which are published in the Journal of...

Scientists have just identified a class of 'danger signals' that are highly efficient at triggering an immune response in infants and newborns. They believe their...