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Wildfires in Indonesia and Borneo exposed 69 million people to unhealthy air pollution and are responsible for thousands of premature deaths, new research has shown....

Credit: NINS/IMS Okazaki, Japan - Kenji Ohmori (Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan) has collaborated with Matthias Weidemüller (University of Heidelberg..

Credit: Courtesy of Science Communications Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Dayton Air Force Research Laboratory and China have developed a new dry adhesive that...

Credit: UBC Using marijuana could help some alcoholics and people addicted to opioids kick their habits, a UBC study has found. "Research suggests that people...

The ecological consequences of an environmental disaster can extend further than one may imagine as effects propagate through interconnected food webs. Most recently, researchers in...

A virus that causes childhood coughs and colds could help in the fight against primary liver cancer, according to a study. Reovirus stimulates the body's...

Black African women are nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with late stage breast cancer as white women in England according to new analysis*...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Knowing the likely course of cancer can influence treatment decisions. Now a new prediction model published today in Lancet...

Among flowering plants, the rose family (called Rosaceae) displays an incredible diversity, including classic reds like the American beauty. But in addition to ornamentals making...

Credit: Sean Brady Most antibiotics in use today are based on natural molecules produced by bacteria--and given the rise of antibiotic resistance, there's an urgent...

Credit: Michigan Tech, Sarah Bird Many innovators and inventors feel they have squandered hours fruitlessly rifling through old patents on the US Patent and Trademark...

In October, we mourned those who died of breast cancer and celebrated all of the women (and men) who have survived. What many of those...

Credit: Photo by Ellen Hutti, Saint Louis University. ST. LOUIS - New research from Saint Louis University finds that the prices for commonly used generic...

LOS ANGELES (Nov. 15, 2016) -- Cedars-Sinai health investigators will use a $1.2 million grant from a state precision medicine initiative to design a system...

DENVER (Nov. 15, 2016) -- The Zika virus is most commonly transmitted in humans as the result of a bite from an infected mosquito or...