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Credit: Margareta Mattsson In a new study, researchers from Sweden and Britain have investigated how the endocrine-disrupting substance linuron affects reproduction in the West African...

(Boston)--Could flavored electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) cause bodily harm? There has been a rapid rise in e-cigarette use, partially due to flavoring additives in tobacco products...

Credit: Courtesy of Angela Taylor, M.D., University of Virginia Health System A team of researchers says it has linked sensitivity to an allergen in red...

Bottom Line: Parents of adolescents believed that the potential to prevent certain types of cancer is the best reason for their children to receive the...

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) will host its 60th Annual Meeting at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, October 18-24,...

Credit: E. Darling/WCS NEW YORK (June 13, 2018)-- An age-old challenge of determining the right amount of fish to harvest from the sea has finally...

Credit: Daiane Cristina Sass (IB-UNESP) A research team at the São Paulo State University's Bioscience Institute (IB-UNESP) in Rio Claro, Brazil, has identified 29 fungi...

Credit: MU News Bureau A large proportion of the American public opts to receive cancer screenings with the hope that testing will reduce their chance...

Credit: Courtesy of the Xu Laboratory, Van Andel Research Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (June 13, 2018) -- For the first time, scientists have visualized the...

SEATTLE, June 13, 2018 -- Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) have shown that diatoms can withstand population collapse in an acidified environment...

With summer nearly here in North America, we often hear about invasive plants popping up in undesirable locations, "colonizing" different areas. But what if we...

Credit: Zosia Rostomian image, Berkeley Lab. Soil, the source of our best antibiotics, can be more thoroughly mined for new drugs and other useful chemicals...

Credit: UGA Recently published research from the University of Georgia and UConn Health provides new insight about the basic biological mechanisms of the RNA-based viral...

Credit: Katharina Knaut How the bicep tenses is no longer a secret. In every muscle cell there are so-called myofibrils, which contract at the same...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 11, 2018--Researchers used periodontal ligament (PDL)-derived stem cells to create a cell sheet, attached it...