(University of Birmingham) The University of Birmingham has been awarded £1.9 million through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research (GHR) Programme...
In 2014, the first child to have been gestated in a donated uterus was born. Although research into uterus transplantation is still in an early...
Scientists hope that a new approach to vaccine development, combined with improved surveillance of potential future threats of outbreak, could help to massively reduce the...
Using sugar molecules researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new vaccine for hay fever that may reduce treatment times and increase the...
Since December 2016, Brazil has been grappling with its worst yellow fever outbreak for several decades. To date, there have been 2,043 human cases including...
Credit: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) When crime lab chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace amounts of those drugs are...
As if lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease weren't enough, there's more bad news for cigarette smokers. Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School...
PHILADELPHIA - A compound secreted in the bloodstream could be the key factor that causes wounds in older people to heal with less scarring than...
Credit: UBC Okanagan The Sherpa people of the Himalayas have long been recognized for their unique ability to excel physically in the thin air of...
Credit: QUT: Anthony Weate QUT Professor Martin Sillence, from QUT's School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, said a new veterinary drug related to one...
The long-chain compounds perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) are the most commonly examined substances in the subgroup of the perfluoralkyl acids (PFAAs). The...
Credit: Credit: Paul Stamets In an evaluation of the safety and abuse research on the drug in hallucinogenic mushrooms, Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that if...
Credit: Jonathan Giacomini, NC State University With bee populations in decline, a new study offers hope for a relatively simple mechanism to promote bee health...
Credit: Tim Schoon, University of Iowa Imagine a situation where one child is teasing another. While the child doing the teasing means it playfully, the...
AUSTIN, Texas -- With rising demand and dwindling supply, water is perhaps Earth's most critical natural resource. One way to get more of it is...
