(Umea University) Researchers have found a strong association between El Niño-Southern Oscillation conditions in the Pacific to observed weather and dengue epidemics in Sri Lanka....
DNA makes up only half of the material inside chromosomes -- far less than was previously thought -- a study has revealed. Up to 47...
Runners who wear trainers with no cushioning and land on the ball of their foot rather than the heel put significantly less demand on their...
A pioneering University of Liverpool research team have published a study that identifies the mechanism in the human body that causes resistance of pancreatic cancer...
Credit: UFZ / André Künzelmann Due to the burning of biomass and fossil fuels and, above all, due to agriculture, excessive quantities of reactive nitrogen...
CHAPEL HILL -- Tobacco products like cigarettes and e-cigarettes are more appealing and are considered less harmful, especially to younger people, when they come in...
Credit: The Hospital Research Foundation. Researchers have made significant progress in the development of a potential vaccine to protect against HIV infection. For the first...
Credit: Zhongxiang Zhao/University of Washington Most of the extra heat trapped by human-generated emissions is ending up in the oceans. But tracking the temperature of...
Credit: NEJM Group/JMRE NEJM Group, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), today took important steps to strengthen ties with the Chinese medical...
A recent study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that among users of antidementia drugs, persons using memantine have the highest risk of pneumonia....
Credit: Advion Academics in the University of Surrey's Department of Chemistry have developed a new diagnostic test for cocaine and benzoylecgonine (the main metabolite for...
Credit: acib If there were no biotechnology, the world would stand still. "Biotechnologically derived drugs dominate therapy with eight of the top ten best-selling drugs...
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Australian and Irish researchers have gained previously unachievable insights into how the size of our immune response is...
Credit: Chao Zhou and Yevgeny Berdichevsky, Lehigh University Scientific progress has provided a solid understanding of the anatomy of the brain. However, there is still...
Credit: Image Attribution: Fossil is from Klondike Mountain Formation, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA, Eocene, Ypresian. Stonerose Interpretive Center Collection (https://commons.wikimedia.or..
