A major obstacle to applying genetic engineering to benefit humans and the environment is the risk that organisms whose genes have been altered might produce...
Patients with a rare bone cancer of the skull and spine - chordoma - could be helped by existing drugs, suggest scientists from the Wellcome...
New research suggests that the last common ancestor of apes--including great apes and humans--was much smaller than previously thought, about the size of a gibbon....
Any scientist who studies groups of people knows that the characteristics of the "sample" -- the group of people selected for the study -- can...
(Chalmers University of Technology) It is time to stop discussing whether electric cars are good or bad. Instead industry, authorities and policy-makers need to work...
Credit: Jose Esparza It is mind-boggling that researchers still don't know exactly what virus was used in the most successful vaccine ever developed. But the...
Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- Vicki P. Losick, Ph.D., of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has been recognized as...
Credit: Lab of Jianwen Que, MD, PhD, Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (October 11, 2017)--Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have identified cells...
Credit: Joseph Anderson, et al. LEBANON, NH - Most colorectal cancer develops from precursors known as polyps, the most common and well researched of which...
In discovering how certain chemotherapy drugs cause the nerve damage known as peripheral neuropathy, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found a potential approach to...
Credit: Sarah Pack Cancer surgeon and researcher Nancy DeMore is leading a clinical trial using frankincense to try to treat breast and colon cancer at...
In recent years, new cancer treatments have brought hope to people who once had limited options. But for others, the wait for an effective drug...
PORTLAND, Ore. (Oct. 6, 2017) -- Live phone calls significantly outperform text messages and letters as a way to remind patients to complete and return...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Oct. 11, 2017) -- News flash....hot flashes aren't the only bothersome symptom of the menopause transition. Many postmenopausal women also experience sexual dysfunction...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (October 11, 2017) - If you're postmenopausal, you shouldn't be bleeding. The very definition of menopause is having gone more than 12 months...
