Bottom Line: Could removing "cancer" from the terminology for low-risk small papillary thyroid cancers (PTCs) reduce patients' anxiety so they consider less invasive treatment than...
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (MEMPHIS, Tenn. - AUG. 23, 2018) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have completed the most comprehensive analysis yet...
Credit: Dartmouth Institute People with serious mental illness (SMI) have a reduced life expectancy of up to 25 years compared to the general population. Smoking...
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) has named Arizona State University as its primary location to house a national biorepository for the next 30 years....
James Cook University scientists in Australia have discovered that shrimp help heal injured fish. PhD student David Vaughan is working on a project led by...
Credit: Theodore DuBose, Duke University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed and demonstrated the first handheld ophthalmology instrument with resolution-boosting adaptive optics technology t..
Fifty years ago, US ecologist Garret Hardin launched a global debate. In his essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" he warned of the consequences of...
LMU chemist Professor Ivan Huc, who heads a research group devoted to the study of Biomimetic Supramolecular Chemistry, has designed and synthesized a molecular structure...
Credit: NIBB A new study has found an effective way to cryopreserve - preservation by cooling to very low temperature - and subsequently transplant ovaries...
Credit: F. Canfarotto et al./Nano Letters A joint research team from Russia and the U.K. has demonstrated the possibility of developing a new type of...
(August 23, 2018) Kwashiorkor, one of the most extreme forms of malnutrition, is estimated to affect more than a hundred thousand children annually. The condition...
Kelp forests in the UK and the wider North-East Atlantic will experience a marked change in ecosystem functioning in response to continued ocean warming and...
Credit: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Philadelphia, August 23, 2018 - Dietary risk factors are among the key contributors to mortality and...
Credit: Matthew Gardner, University of East Anglia One of the rarest birds in the western hemisphere, the Bahama Nuthatch, has been rediscovered by research teams...
Credit: Prof Annemariè Avenant-Oldewage, Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg. Everyone needs safe and clean water to drink. Yet industry, agriculture and urban activities threaten...
