BIOENGINEER.ORG

Philadelphia, PA, November 29, 2016 - Disruptions of daily rhythms of the body's master internal clock cause depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in mice, reports a...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have shed new light on why and how a new class of drug is effective at fighting off leukaemia....

Approximately one third of persons with Alzheimer's disease use prescription medicines for pain after their diagnosis, reports a recent study conducted at the University of...

Credit: University of Southern Denmark One drug, one disease. This is how we traditionally think about pharmaceutical drugs, but many of them are actually effective...

Credit: No credit supplied. Australian researchers have discovered remarkable evolutionary changes to insulin regulation in two of the nation's most iconic native animal species -...

Despite the fact that more than four percent of the world's population suffer from depression, and even though approximately 1,500 individuals commit suicide each year...

Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC. With 29 747 newly reported HIV infections in 2015, the EU/EEA notification rate is similar to...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The Fas protein can either inhibit or promote the controlled cell death (apoptosis), depending on...

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Humans and Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world, could not be more different. In the wild, these four-legged carnivores...

Credit: Miranda et al., 2017 Researchers have discovered that mice with Huntington's disease (HD) suffer defects in muscle maturation that may explain some symptoms of...

Philadelphia, PA, November 29, 2016 - Feral horses are free-ranging descendants of once-domesticated horses. All free-ranging horses in North America are feral horses, and between...

Credit: Photo by DS Johnson/VIMS. Add fertilizer to your garden and your plants will probably grow bigger and taller. Add fertilizer to a salt marsh...

Credit: Copyright: Florian Raible, University of Vienna All organisms need energy, but sources of energy such as food are usually available in limited quantities. Animals...

One of the world's leading botanical science research institutions, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is celebrating 15 years of partnerships aimed at protecting Mexico's biodiversity...

Credit: DSA and WDS Tokyo, Japan and The Hague, Netherlands - 25 November 2016 - The ICSU World Data System (WDS) and the Data Seal...