Credit: Fábio Maffei Global warming could lead to the extinction of up to 10% of frog and toad species endemic to Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest biome...
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Geneticists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered a previously unknown cell growth mechanism that makes a wide...
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have unraveled the origins and identified mutations associated with a perplexing form of...
Credit: UW Medicine A new scientific analysis of nearly 4,000 mutations deliberately engineered into the BRCA1 gene will immediately benefit people undergoing genetic testing for...
CHAPEL HILL -- Researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have made important discoveries that...
Credit: University of Lincoln Up to 30 per cent of coastal wetlands could be lost globally by the year 2100 with a dramatic effect on...
Credit: ZSL Analysis of bones, from what was once the world's largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more...
The issues facing modern society such as climate change, poverty, and the global economy have become more complex over time. To address those challenges, researchers...
Fewer and fewer women die from breast cancer in recent years but, surprisingly, the decline is just as large in the age groups that are...
For some time, "big data" has loomed large as a source of challenges and opportunities for science, but as yet, guidance on how to manage...
Credit: Jeff Lovich, USGS, Southwest Biological Science Center Approximately 61 percent of the world's 356 turtle species are threatened or already extinct, and the decline...
Credit: Video supplied by CEH Four new reports on Natural Capital published today will enable governments and businesses to take an evidence-based approach to valuing...
Venoms produced by snails, snakes, scorpions and spiders contain numerous bioactive compounds that could lead to therapeutic drugs or insect-specific pesticides. Yet little is known...
Anyone who has ever tried to find a way through a crowded pedestrian zone has - literally - run into the problem: While some people...
Credit: MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - What if roadkill piled beside the road and never decomposed? What if massive fish kills washed up on beaches...
