Physicians often fail to recommend genetic testing for breast cancer patients at high risk for mutations associated with ovarian and other cancers, according to a...
Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA A landmark report by the World Health Organization in 2014 observed that antibiotic resistance -- long thought to be a health threat...
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard Rapid Response Team NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Carlos as its center moved just to the west of La...
Credit: Livshits and Shani-Zerbibet al. Few animals can match the humble hydra's resilience. The small, tentacled freshwater animals can be literally shredded into pieces and...
A recent study published in Cell Chemical Biology has revealed new insights into a molecular pathway that leads to Staphylococcus aureus virulence. Using a tool...
Credit: Marcus Klaus Nitrogen deposition caused by human activities can lead to an increased phytoplankton production in boreal lakes. The response of boreal lakes to...
Credit: Matthias Sieber / ETH Zurich / ACE Diatoms are a very common group of algae found not only in freshwater streams, rivers and lakes,...
The development of agriculture is frequently seen as one of the major economic, social, and demographic thresholds in human history. From the perspective of the...
Credit: The John Innes Centre Scientists at the John Innes Centre, Norwich have published new evidence that plant tissues can have a preferred direction of...
Credit: (Photo courtesy of Stanislav Shvartsman, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering) Two Princeton University studies are opening important new windows into understanding an untreata..
The Boston University College of Engineering announced it is a co-investigator for a $3.36 million grant received by Oak Ridge National Laboratory from the U.S....
Credit: Courtesy of Prof. Norbert Scherer Feb. 3, 2017 -- New research provides scientists looking at single molecules or into deep space a more accurate...
Credit: Amy DeZern, M.D. Physicians at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report they have successfully treated 16 patients with a rare and lethal form...
Credit: Dr. Rohan Walvekar New Orleans, LA - A surgical approach developed by ENT surgeons at LSU Health New Orleans to perform thryroidectomies without scarring...
WASHINGTON, D.C., February, 7, 2017 -- Superconductivity, where electrical currents course unhindered through a material, is one of modern physics' most intriguing scientific discoveries. It...
