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Credit: Julia Boland A new review is the first to describe the scope of threats to bats by invasive species. The review summarizes the threats...

Credit: Julia Put Grains have been reported to regularly trickle from hopper cars travelling via the railway located within the Canadian Banff and Yoho National...

Credit: Penn State Plant-based sensors that measure the thickness and electrical capacitance of leaves show great promise for telling farmers when to activate their irrigation...

From isolated caves to ancient permafrost, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes for resistance have been showing up in unexpected places. As scientists puzzle over how genes...

In this age of fast fashion and fast food, people want things immediately. The same holds true when they get sick and want to know...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (Aug. 30, 2017) It may seem paradoxical, but studying what goes wrong in rare diseases can provide useful insights...

It appears to be a case of 'do what makes you happy' for people who regularly walk their dogs. According to new University of Liverpool...

Credit: M.C. Sagario Before habitat degradation from impacts like grazing begins to cause population declines, the first response by wildlife usually comes in the form...

Aug. 29, 2017 - For women undergoing risk-reducing mastectomy to prevent breast cancer, reconstruction can be challenging in those with larger breasts. A two-stage approach...

Credit: Camilla De Nardis, Linda J. A. Hendriks, Emilie Poirier, Tudor Arvinte, Piet Gros, Alexander B. H. Bakker and John de Kruif A group of...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 28, 2017--New biologic drugs, such as monoclonal antibodies and immunotherapies in clinical development, designed to...

ASCO Perspective Merry-Jennifer Markham, MD, FACP, ASCO Expert in Cancer Survivorship "More than ever before, young cancer survivors are living long lives after treatment, but...

Credit: IBS New blood vessels branch out of preexisting ones is via a process called angiogenesis. Although this is essential for survival, development and wound...

A protein, called inositol-requiring enzyme 1 -- IRE1 -- may serve as a key driver in a series of molecular interactions that can both promote...

Credit: Brendan B. Larsen, Elizabeth C. Miller, Matthew K. Rhodes, and John J. Wiens Anyone who has studied biology, watched a nature documentary, or, for...