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A growing body of research suggests that bouldering, a form of rock climbing, can help build muscle and endurance while reducing stress -- and a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 25, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced 54 grants totaling more...

Hamilton, ON (May 25, 2017) - A trial led by a McMaster University respirology professor shows promising results for a new medicine for severe asthma...

Credit: Photo Ungbarnasund Snorra BABY SWIMMING: Both the literature and practice indicate that children can stand without support starting at around 9 months old. "But...

Loading video... Credit: UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory Experiments with tiny, shelled organisms in the ocean suggest big changes to the global carbon cycle are...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted authorization for a magnetic device used to treat pediatric esophageal atresia, a birth defect that causes abnormal...

PHILADELPHIA -- There are more than 98,000 people currently awaiting a kidney transplant in the United States. But the organs are in short supply: only...

Credit: Jeff Miller/University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Zika virus infection passes efficiently from a pregnant monkey to its fetus, spreading inflammatory damage throughout the...

Credit: (Photo Credit: Andrew Hearn, WildCRU) With rain forests at risk the world over, a new collaboration is equipping conservationists with the tools to predict...

Credit: Credit: Poul Petersen, Cornell University Water is the Earth's most abundant natural resource, but it's also something of a mystery due to its unique...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA -- Dr. Ming-Hui Zou, director of the Center for Molecular & Translational Medicine and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA -- As children age into adolescence and on into young adulthood, they show dramatic improvements in their ability to control impulses,...

(Pharmamar) PharmaMar (MSE:PHM) has announced today a licensing agreement with Eczasibasi Group to commercialize the marine-derived anticancer drug Aplidin® (plitidepsin) in Turkey.

WASHINGTON (May 25, 2017) -- Disruptions in a protein folding process occurring in the brain, known as endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, may cause non-alcoholic fatty...

Credit: Rosenblum lab/UCSF In experiments in mice, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered that regulatory T cells (Tregs; pronounced "tee-regs"), a type of immune cell...