Understanding community experiences may inform others seeking to establish safe consumption sites A new qualitative study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...
Non-invasive imaging technique could greatly enhance cancer therapiesCredit: Junjie Yao, Duke University Measuring a fever is usually pretty simple: place a thermometer under a patient's...
For the first time ever, researchers are comprehensively sequencing the human immune system, which is billions of times larger than the human genome. In a...
Controversial discovery suggests early complex organisms may have originated 2.1 billion years ago--more than 1.5 billion years sooner than previous evidence indicated.Credit: Abder El Albani...
Women with bladder or kidney cancer may lose out on a prompt diagnosis if they are already being regularly treated for recurring urinary tract infections...
By analyzing hundreds of estuaries at multiple spatial scales, new research identifies factors that drive marsh loss but may be overlooked by traditional assessments.Credit: Anna...
The study is based on data from the LGBTQ National Teen Study of 17,000 teens A large proportion of sexual and gender minority youth do...
Researchers point out that at the global level, the environmental contamination by POPs compounds is increasingCredit: Photo by Tadeusz Lakota on Unsplash Scientists of the...
Credit: Zhang Lab, Penn State A new method uses fluorescence to detect potentially disease-causing forms of proteins as they unravel due to stress or mutations....
Six-decade-long study finds 40-year induction period between time of exposure and diagnosis All women exposed to high levels of DDT are at increased risk for...
Men have stronger positive correlation between fitness and brain function, study finds Rockville, Md. (February 13, 2019)--New research suggests that the relationship between physical and...
Results of two clinical studies have added to evidence that blood-based liquid biopsies can accurately track lung cancer treatment responses by measuring circulating tumor DNA...
Credit: American Chemical Society Plastic bag pollution has become a huge environmental problem, prompting some cities and countries to heavily tax or ban the sacks....
Lakes, rivers and some private wells are becoming saltier, largely thanks to high levels of road salt sprinkled on streets during winter. According to an...
The Research Center for Gas Innovation is developing technology to separate CO2 and methane in oil and gas exploration and store it in offshore salt...
