---Treatment changes including the advent of targeted and immune therapies have dramatically improved survival for blood cancers, but new report calls for improved evaluation of...
Extreme events - such as heat waves, droughts, floods, fires and storms - are made worse by human activities. For example, past civilizations, such as...
Young adults who are overweight or obese are twice as likely as their leaner peers to binge and purge, use laxatives or diuretics, or force...
LONDON (12 June 2018) -- A major international conference on "Intact Forests in the 21st Century" will take place in Oxford, UK on 18 -...
Credit: Heloisa Machado Rio de Janeiro (June 10, 2018) --Since ancient times we have been interested in knowing about our anatomy, physiology and how our...
Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now structurally characterized late stages in the assembly of the human small...
Credit: Ran Wang. Biologists get a new look at plant biodiversity and function with new imaging technology developed at the University of Alberta. "Biodiversity and...
Credit: Ly et al. Psychedelic drugs may have mind-altering powers in the physical sense, too. A new study, published June 12 in the journal Cell...
Credit: Patricio Opazo/Daniel Choquet/IINS Alzheimer's disease, which affects nearly a million French people, is characterized by a premature alteration of the patient's cognitive faculti..
Credit: Photo: Valeria Azovskaya Researchers at Aalto University and York University have succeeded in creating a water-repellent composite structure out of lignin particles, in which...
Sea urchins lack eyes, but can see with their tentacle-like tube feet instead, previous research has indicated. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have...
In the United States, as well as in most of the developed world, people spend about 90 percent of their time indoors. In homes, workplaces,...
Credit: Courtesy of D. Corry. An invisible particle enters your lungs. The next thing you know breathing becomes difficult. You are having as asthma attack....
Credit: The Rockefeller University It's the critical first step in treating everything from strokes to cancer: a timely and accurate diagnosis. Today, doctors often rely...
Rare earth elements (REEs) are an indispensable component of the digital technologies that are now an integral part of our everyday life. Yet their biological...
