The unique features and blending characters of a new roundworm species, discovered in India, make the nematode a distinct yet ...

Credit: Danielle Allen People tend to talk to dogs as though they are human babies. A new study in Proceedings ...

Credit: University of Tsukuba Sepsis is a life-threatening condition due to excessive immune responses to infection that damages the patient's ...

Neuroscientists at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered precisely where and how to electrically stimulate the ...

Europe will be spared the worst economic impacts of climate change by a slowing down of the Gulf Stream, new ...

PHILADELPHIA – Vaccines are usually medicine's best defense against the world's deadliest microbes. However, HIV is so mutable that it ...

For the first time novel expression sites in the brain have been identified for a gene which is associated with ...

Credit: The laboratory of Ken Zaret, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA – Newly described stretches of ...

According to the World Health Organization, depression is a major cause of disease burden worldwide, affecting an estimated 350 million ...

Male bumblebees are just as smart as female worker bees despite their dim-witted reputation, according to new research from Queen ...

Credit: Daniel Yeh, PhD, College of Engineering, University of South Florida Rapid, unplanned urbanization is becoming a serious threat across ...

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Many policies — from medicine to terrorism — depend on how the general public accepts and ...

In 1963, Irish surgeon Denis Parson Burkitt airmailed samples of an unusual jaw tumor found in Ugandan children to his ...

The sudden emergence of the Zika virus epidemic in Latin America in 2015-16 has caught the scientific world unawares. A ...

In a Journal of Advanced Nursing study, female gender and personal burnout were linked with impaired sleep quality among nurses. ...

Credit: UofL Utilizing messages focused on images created by local artists and written information communicated through local dialects proved essential ...

IMAGE: Using optogenetics and other technology, researchers have for the first time precisely manipulated bursting activity of cells in the ...

Credit: Andrew Sparkes A decade ago, an Editorial in The Lancet, 'Hypertension: uncontrolled and conquering the world', presented some alarming ...

IMAGE: The increase in maximum lifespan in the laboratory was obtained in 5 animal species, both without any interventions, and ...

Credit: ATS Nov. 15, 2017–The court-ordered publication of "corrective statements" by major U.S. tobacco companies later this month should serve ...