A series of cell-based tests developed to compare the biological impact of cigarette smoke with e-cigarette vapour revealed no activity in cells exposed to vapour...
Credit: Photo by Douglas Boyer, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. — A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-flying acrobats. These first primates spent...
Credit: NIPR The decades-long tracking of flying birds reveals that body size and flight styles determine the scale of birds' migration, as predicted by the...
Credit: T. Frenzel et al., Science (2017) NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 23, 2017) — Through a few clever molecular hacks, researchers at Columbia University Medical...
CHICAGO (April 4, 2016) — A new stem cell therapy significantly improved long-term health outcomes in patients with severe and end-stage heart failure in a...
Credit: Katharina Huefner A mountaineer thinks he is being pursued, starts talking nonsense or changes his route without rhyme or reason. That alpinists can suffer...
Credit: Photo by Jesse Saroli, ISCA Technologies Mosquitoes, mostly through the transmission of malaria, are the deadliest animals on Earth. Malaria claims the lives of...
Credit: Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio – A woman's memories of a loved one's experience with cancer could play a significant role in how she approaches...
Credit: Shivan Parusnath/Wits University The Sungazer (Smaug giganteus), a dragon-like lizard species endemic to the Highveld regions of South Africa, is facing an assault on...
IMAGE: University of Missouri researchers have found that a medication commonly used to treat high blood pressure and irregular heartbeats may have the potential to...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2016 New Rochelle, NY, November 28, 2016–While frequency and duration of online social networking may have a negative effect...
Credit: UCLA Engineering If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb — or delicately handle an egg while cooking you an omelet —...
Credit: USZ Liver cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death and represents the fastest rising cancer worldwide. In most cases, the tumor develops in...
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON — Because obesity affects one in six U.S. children and adolescents, there is a pressing need to identify the...
EAST LANSING, Mich. – If Paul Simon were to write a song about the bacteria in Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment, or LTEE, it could...
