A study comparing DNA and RNA data from Nigerian breast cancer patients to patients in a United States database found that certain aggressive molecular features...
A team of clinicians, dietitians and researchers has created an automated program to screen for malnutrition in hospitalized children, providing daily alerts to healthcare providers...
The amount of plastic washing up onto the shores of remote South Atlantic islands is 10 times greater than it was a decade ago, according...
Credit: Oslo kommunes kunstsamling (City of Oslo Art Collection). Outdoor bronze statues make an important contribution to the culture of our cities. However, the urban...
Credit: Intelligent Fingerprinting A revolutionary drug test developed from research carried out at the University of East Anglia can detect four classes of drugs in...
A root extract of the Fallopia multiflora, or Chinese knotweed, has special properties: it enables the nematode C. elegans to live longer and protects it...
Scientific developments in the field of synthetic biology have often given rise to public debate on the possible need for additional regulation. In response, the...
Researchers at North Carolina State University have successfully incorporated "photosensitizers" into a range of polymers, giving those materials the ability to render bacteria and viruses...
Credit: (Courtesy: Renugah Naidu and Gowtham Subramanian, Singapore University of Technology & Design) Malaria remains an economic and health burden to the developing world. As...
Dr. Nikolaus Wenger of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has been awarded a Freigeist Fellowship to support the development of brain-computer interfaces for neurological diseases. The...
Credit: Micaiah Ward TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Scorpions can be found at every corner of the globe and on six of the seven continents, from the...
Retroviruses have colonised vertebrate hosts for millions of years by inserting their genes into host genomes, enabling their inheritance through generations as endogenous retroviruses (ERVs)....
Credit: D. Caetano-Anolles Owing to present-day armed conflicts, the general public is well aware of the terrifying effects of chemical weapons. Meanwhile, the effects of...
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have unraveled a mechanism of resistance to EZH2 inhibitors in ovarian cancers with mutations in the ARID1A gene. The study,...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Next time you're stung by a wasp or a honeybee, consider the elegantly designed stinger that caused you so much pain. In...
