The recent legalization of recreational marijuana (cannabis) use in California, Colorado, and Washington reflect the sweeping changes in the attitudes and perceptions towards marijuana use...
SAN DIEGO, CA - Despite an elevated risk of toxicity from chemotherapy, children with Down syndrome and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) did not experience higher...
The fact that many young women do not pursue a career in the 'STEM' fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics may have its roots...
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science A promising new combination therapy for a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer has been identified by Weizmann Institute scientists,...
Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum A research team at the University of Basel's Biozentrum has investigated the expression of ribosomal proteins in a wide range...
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia A highly innovative, personalized cell-based treatment for a high-risk form of the most common childhood cancer continues to move through...
Credit: Courtesy of WCS NEW YORK (November 30, 2016) --A study of complex coral reef ecosystems in the western Indian Ocean found that one species...
Credit: Barqa Landscape Project/University of Waterloo. Industrial pollution may seem like a modern phenomenon, but in fact, an international team of researchers may have discovered...
Cortisol is a life sustaining adrenal hormone essential to maintaining the natural balance of the body. It is often referred to as "the stress hormone,"...
Credit: Nature Following a successful diet, many people are dismayed to find their weight rebounding - an all-too-common phenomenon termed "recurrent" or "yo-yo" obesity. Worse...
Stephen J. Elledge, the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has been named a 2017 recipient of...
Credit: © 2016 KAUST Rice is a staple for more than half of the world's population, yet it is also the most salt-sensitive cereal crop....
Credit: © 2016 KAUST Modeling the combustion of fossil fuels by KAUST researchers has helped to characterize some of the components of methane, laying the...
Credit: UBC The ancient Japanese art of flower arranging was the inspiration for a groundbreaking technique to create tiny "artificial brains" that could be used...
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich chemist Oliver Trapp has designed and synthesized a catalyst which flexibly molds the handedness of the reaction products with which it...
