PHILADELPHIA - Several critical periods over a human life span - including before birth -- determine when individuals are the most susceptible to environmental toxicants....
Use of statins may speed up the onset of Parkinson's disease symptoms in people who are susceptible to the disease, according to Penn State College...
What do ketchup, silly putty, leaves, glue, cloth and our bodies have in common? They all fall under the category of soft matter, a class...
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 14, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced 14 grants totaling more...
Credit: Boston Children's Hospital Up to 75 percent of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus -- an incurable autoimmune disease commonly known as lupus -- experience...
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers have uncovered how mutations in a protein network drive several high-risk leukemias, offering new prospects for novel therapies. An...
Haute couture can be credited for enhancing more than catwalks and red carpets. New research from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that the 3D...
Credit: Image courtesy of the Turner laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Researchers want to know: does diarrhea serve a purpose? Does it actually help...
Credit: Michigan Medicine Sharing a history of mental health issues with an employer is difficult for anyone. It's that much harder if reporting an old...
BOSTON - Boston Medical Center (BMC), in partnership with Action for Boston Community Development's (ABCD) Head Start program, has helped mothers experience a 40 percent...
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH University Park, PA -- A newly described protein could be an effective target for combatting drug-resistant...
Credit: E. Ashley Steel. The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. River temperatures have long been an area...
For celiac patients and others on gluten-free diets, it seems like gluten is everywhere -- cakes, cookies and breads. It's even in most beers. But...
The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR/Cas9 made a huge splash in the news when it was initially announced. But the first commercial product, expected around...
Credit: Photo credit Central Agricultural Research Center. Farmers in Montana, and other parts of the Northern Great Plains, are shifting from cereal mono-cropping to a...
