BOSTON (November 1, 2016)--Beta-cryptoxanthin (BCX), a carotenoid pigment compound found primarily in plants, reduces the number and invasiveness of tumors in mouse and cell models...
Credit: Elephants Without Borders AMHERST, Mass. - As lead researchers in Africa's recent Great Elephant Census, wildlife ecologists Curtice Griffin and Scott Schlossberg at the...
ITHACA, N.Y. - If you want people to care about endangered species, focus on how many animals are left, not on the chances of a...
By the time you reach the end of this sentence, RNA folding will have taken place in your body more than 10 quadrillion times. The...
A new study suggests that an ability to delay immediate gratification is associated with less frequent consumption of fast food. The study, which appears early...
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery The prognosis for patients diagnosed with scleroderma - an autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis of the skin - is not...
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a new, less invasive way to perform transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a procedure widely...
Credit: Graphic by Noah Greene and Joe Olmsted Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are advancing tissue engineering through new work in developing improved porous...
Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Kathleen Phillips) COLLEGE STATION -- A turfgrass disease that looked like an ink spill on many southern golf courses...
Scientists face many constraints when embarking on new projects. Often the biggest constraint is a small budget. This is why a team of scientists led...
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA-The brain regulates social behavior differently in males and females, according to a new study published today in the Proceedings of...
From HIV to Malaria to Ebola, health and medical research with human participants in Africa -- and the ethical evaluation of that research -- has...
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Standard-of-care treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer includes radiation, chemotherapy and brachytherapy (in which radiation is implanted inte..
PITTSBURGH--For as long as scientists have been listening in on the activity of the brain, they have been trying to understand the source of its...
Credit: Matthew West. October 31, 2016 Putting the squeeze on mitochondria: The final cut A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows for the first...
