Chances are that children who eat excessive amounts of fatty foods will not only become obese, but will develop cognitive ...

The approach used by regulators to initially screen new chemical products for toxic effects is wrong almost half the time, ...

Philadelphia, PA, Nov.15, 2016 - Drinking red wine is widely regarded as protective against cardiovascular disease. A new report in ...

Professor Neil Hyatt, Research Chair in Radioactive Waste Management, calls for UK plutonium policy to be re-examined to allow swift ...

Credit: Berkeley Lab Next-generation solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they're relatively inexpensive and ...

Junk food is a burgeoning problem for modern society: we literally have too much on our plate. Fatty and unhealthy ...

Credit: University of Illinois There are approximately 1,100 known antimicrobial peptides (AMP) with diverse sequences that can permeate microbial membranes. ...

Credit: CSIC Communications Just as astrophysicists and physicists depend on telescopes and particle accelerators which are often shared by several ...

Assembling a drug from harmless components at the target location, such as a tumor, would help reduce the side effects ...

The HLF offers all accepted young researchers the great opportunity to personally interact with the laureates of the most prestigious ...

The developing world is achieving significant growth in a broad cross-section of biotechnology fields, many of them directly tied to ...

Environmental factors such as education and leisure activities have a greater influence on the development of short-sightedness or myopia than ...

Do Asian Americans receive adequate preventative healthcare when it comes to being screened for type 2 diabetes? No, says a ...

A comprehensive review published in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease confirms that people living with Parkinson's disease (PD) can benefit ...

Although treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD) is significantly extending the lives of patients, these patients are now being admitted to ...

20% of patients infected with MRSA are dying from systemic infections Antimicrobial resistance infections are projected to cause more deaths ...

Our current understanding is that mice have either no -- or extremely limited -- neural circuitry and genes similar to ...

Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory A new study has found heightened concentrations of some common substances in drinking water near ...

(Boston)--Researchers have identified a new pathway and with it a protein, BRD4, necessary for breast cancer cells to spread. The ...

WASHINGTON (November 15, 2016) - When a large group of children with aggressive behavior experienced devastating tornadoes, many of those ...