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Improved medications for Type 2 diabetes are one step closer thanks to a new discovery reported this week by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania...

New research on how cannabis use alters eating behavior could lead to treatments for appetite loss in chronic illness, according to experts at Washington State...

Hormones that signal the body's state of hunger and fullness could be the key to new treatments for drug and alcohol addiction. That is the...

Mayo Clinic's Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Children's Hospital Colorado are collaborating to provide solutions for patients with...

A simple instruction to change your thinking as mealtime approaches can help cut calories, according to new research from the University of Tübingen, Germany. By...

Scientists at Rutgers Brain Health Institute have discovered that a small group of brain cells in the hypothalamus called 'orexin' neurons could be a promising...

Credit: Lehigh University Viruses cause diseases ranging from the common cold to the deadly and highly infectious Ebola disease. Their methodology is to enter healthy...

Credit: Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University In the future, plants will be able to create their own fertilizer. Farmers will no longer need to buy and...

Credit: Hersam Research Group/Northwestern University Borophene, the atomically flat form of boron with unique properties, is even more interesting when different forms of the material...

BEDFORD, Mass., July 16, 2018 - Homology Medicines, Inc., a genetic medicines company, announced today a peer-reviewed publication demonstrating that Homology's technology induces efficient and...

Credit: Purdue University/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Recent studies show that 40 percent of Americans over the age of 85 have Alzheimer's disease, and...

College Park, Md. -- The success of electric car batteries depends on the miles that can be driven on a single charge, but the current...

Credit: (courtesy Dr. King) ROCKVILLE, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Mary-Claire King, PhD, as the 2018 recipient of the...

Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute have discovered that CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing can cause greater genetic damage in cells than was previously thought. These results...

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have solved a key puzzle in quantum physics that could help to make data transfer totally secure. The team...