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The recent heatwave and drought could be having a deeper, more negative effect on soil than we first realised say scientists. This could have widespread...

Credit: KAIST A new study by KAIST researchers identified where the mutation causing glioblastoma starts. According to the study, neural stem cells away from the...

Think summer holidays and you'll likely call up images of a beautiful beach or a glittering blue lake. But more and more lakes, rivers and...

Inhibiting the Jagged 1 protein in mice prevents the proliferation and growth of colon and rectal tumours. What is more, this approach to the disease...

Credit: UBC Okanagan Researchers have determined that new mothers exposed to cigarette smoke in their homes, stop breastfeeding sooner than women not exposed to second-hand...

In direct contradiction to marketing efforts claiming that hookah (water pipe) smoking is less hazardous to health than cigarettes, a new UCLA study published in...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence for drug...

Credit: Rodrigo Aragua/AFP The oldest living seeds found on Earth germinated after resting more than 30,000 years in Arctic soils. But in the humid tropics,...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Drawing on genomic data from more than one million individuals, researchers from the University of Michigan have led a large collaborative...

Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON - Abundant in human babies and small mammals, brown adipose tissue (BAT), or brown fat, was only recently...

Amsterdam, NL, August 2, 2018 - Almost two-thirds of non-diabetic patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) may be insulin resistant, despite having normal blood sugar, report...

Credit: J Bini et al., Yale University, New Haven, CT. RESTON, VA - Researchers have discovered a new nuclear medicine test that could improve care...

AURORA, Colo. (Aug. 2, 2018) - The U.S. has experienced a disturbing increase in violent and unintentional injuries over the last few years, reversing positive...

The number of people who died as a result of Hurricane Maria -- which hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 -- may be as...

Credit: UIC Data from a lung cancer screening program at the University of Illinois at Chicago provides evidence that national lung cancer screening guidelines, which...