Credit: Joo-Hyeon Lee (Boston Children's Hospital/Cambridge Stem Cell Institute UK) To stay healthy, our lungs have to maintain two key populations of cells: the alveolar...
A plant-based, Mediterranean-style diet has been shown to provide the same medical benefits for treating laryngopharyngeal reflux as popular reflux medications. This is according to...
A critical survival decision for all animals is when, where and how to escape from a looming threat. A Northwestern University research team using multi-neuron...
Credit: Newcastle University Atelerix, a spin-out from Newcastle University, UK is offering the transformative hydrogel technology for the storage and transport of viable cells including...
Credit: Jolle W. Jolles New research sheds light on how "animal personalities" - inter-individual differences in animal behaviour - can drive the collective behaviour and...
(Chapel Hill, N.C. -- Sept. 7, 2017) -- Strong molecular bonds between antibodies and biological gels, like mucus, aren't necessary to catch pathogens as was...
Credit: Wong Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University engineers have demonstrated a technique for making 3-D-printed biomaterials that can degrade on demand,...
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University The goal is to find out how medical drugs affect the liver and how the organ changes with advancing age. The...
Credit: Lise Balsby The use of antidepressants has been on the rise for many years. Between 2 and 8% of pregnant women are on antidepressants....
GAITHERSBURG, MD - Sept. 7, 2017 - Bo Li, Director General Director of the CFDA's National Institute for Food and Drug Control (NIFDC) and Erin...
Compared to smallpox or typhoid, malaria is proving one of the most challenging human diseases to eradicate - and so remains a real and constant...
Weed control in agricultural landscapes has been dominated by herbicides for over 75 years. Like the advent of antibiotics, herbicides were well-regarded tools in the...
The latest outbreaks of emerging, dangerous pathogens, such as Ebola, MERS-CoV or Zika, emphasise the importance of the rapid development of effective vaccines. However, being...
Credit: Wake Forest University Hidden in plain sight - that's how researchers describe their discovery of a new genus of large forest tree commonly found,...
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have developed a new method for reconstructing continuous biological...
