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LOS ANGELES – Patients with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) face a much higher risk of succumbing to a deadly fungal infection, known as mucormycosis, than healthy...

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) March 11, 2016 — A biological process in the brains of zebra finches shows that the songbirds respond quickly to trauma and are...

Men with prostate cancer run the risk of brittle bones as a side-effect of their treatment. But one hour's football training a few times a...

Ocean acidification may well be helping invasive species of algae, jellyfish, crabs and shellfish to move to new areas of the planet with damaging consequences,...

R&D Magazine named the handheld single-cell pipette (hSCP), a Houston Methodist Research Institute invention, as one the 100 most innovative technologies and services of the...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS , in collaboration with Imperial College London and the University of Vienna, Austria, have identified antibodies that...

Credit: MIT News CAMBRIDGE, MA — Red blood cells must be small and flexible enough to squeeze through the tiniest capillaries of the body, where...

In recent years, over 3% of births per year in developed countries have corresponded to children conceived through assisted reproduction techniques, which poses a considerable...

A new study, which followed 180 pre-term infants from birth to age seven, found that babies who were fed more breast milk within the first...

Credit: Heather F. Smith, Ph.D., Midwestern University Neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome (nTOS) is a common neurologic syndrome resulting in pain, numbness, and/or weakness in the...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 31, 2017–Researchers studying the mechanism of action of the natural, plant-derived compound berberine have linked...

Credit: Alexandre Paix Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a streamlined method and accompanying efficiency "rules" for introducing new DNA sequences into cells after using the...

Credit: MODIS/NASA In 1870, explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, trekking across the barren and remote ice cap of Greenland, saw something most people wouldn't expect in...

IMAGE: MSU plant biologist Maren Friesen asks: Why do scientists chase unicorns? Credit: G.L. Kohuth EAST LANSING, Mich. – Scientists chase unicorns because if they...

Credit: Osaka University In March 2017, the Cardiovascular Surgery Group at Osaka University successfully implanted a left ventricular assist device with an internal power cable...