Credit: NTU Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have discovered a plant-based food preservative that is more effective than artificial preservatives. T..
Credit: Lou Corpuz-Bosshart / UBC The deadly Nipah virus and others like it assemble themselves in a much more haphazard manner than previously thought, new...
Credit: NIAID Vaccinations have begun in a first-in-human trial of an experimental live, attenuated Zika virus vaccine developed by scientists at the National Institute of...
A new study suggests that long-term exposure to secondhand smoke during childhood increases the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) death in adulthood. The...
An opt-out organ donation register is unlikely to increase the number of donations, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London. The...
Mathematics can help public health workers better understand and influence human behaviours that lead to the spread of infectious disease, according to a study from...
Credit: Nature Communications 3D printing by direct laser writing enables production of micro-meter-sized structures for many applications, from biomedicine to microelectronics to optical metamater..
Credit: Tyler Refsland, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Forests in the eastern United States may have had it easy compared to their western counterparts,...
Credit: Sean Mattson, STRI A quick look at the fossil record shows that no species lasts forever. On average, most species exist for around a...
Aggressive brain tumour cells taken from patients self-destructed after being exposed to a chemical in laboratory tests, researchers have shown. The study could be the...
Credit: Petersen et al., Sci. Adv. 2018 Years after the end of the Human Genome Project (HGP), which mapped the human genetic blueprint, its contributions...
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Timber harvested illegally under fraudulent permits is undercutting conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon, new research by an international collaboration shows. The...
Credit: Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore A car accident leaves an aging patient with severe muscle injuries that won't heal. Treatment with muscle stem cells...
Credit: Perot Museum of Nature and Science The MOU is part of the Museum's new strategic focus on human origins, with plans to increase research,...
A lineage of type 1 dengue virus found in Brazil is able to prevail over another even though it multiplies less in vector mosquitoes and...
