New genome-sequence data show that Caribbean corals that have survived mass-extinction events caused by environmental change can rebound and expand their populations. An international team...
BC scientists and their colleagues from across the globe have made a major leap forward in understanding how the human body's trillions of cells develop...
Credit: Berkeley Lab, UCSF Scientists have mapped the reorganization of genetic material that takes place when a stem cell matures into a nerve cell. Detailed...
Credit: Photo: private Many parents know from their own experience that it is not always easy to comb children's hair. Yet with patience and nerves...
Scientists from the University of Oxford have shown that newly hatched ducklings that are shown a substitute mother object with only one eye do not...
Uninsured individuals who had greater knowledge about health insurance and financial issues were more likely to gain coverage after health insurance exchanges opened under the...
CINCINNATI--Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have discovered that an ion channel, active within T cells (white blood cells), could be targeted to reduce...
Credit: Jonathan Parr Chapel Hill, NC - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the highest rates of people living with malaria....
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November17, 2016--A recent study of 577 children living in Puerto Rico shows that residential distance to...
Although HIV rates are higher among the African American community compared to the White population, research shows that engagement in risky behaviors does not fully...
(Philadelphia, PA) - The inability of cells to eliminate damaged proteins and organelles following the blockage of a coronary artery and its subsequent re-opening with...
Children that are diagnosed with the severe the brain tumour malignant glioma often have a very poor prognosis. Knowledge about how pediatric malignant glioma arises...
The mystery of an outbreak of lymphoma and leukaemia in gibbon colonies in the US, Bermuda and Thailand in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
Credit: Swansea University This technology is now being taken forward commercially through the recently formed spin-out company PulmonIR Ltd. Clinical trials in collaboration with Cwm...
It has long been known to science that women find it easier than men to multitask and switch between tasks. But identifying exactly which areas...
