Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Androgen drives many prostate cancers. But the body uses androgen for muscle growth and maintenance, among other functions. An...
In news that may bring hope to asthma sufferers, scientists discover a mechanism that provides a possible new target for allergy treatments. By observing the...
Credit: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a technology that might provide weeks of glucose control for...
Credit: Courtesy of Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University scientists have pinpointed a new source of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas...
Credit: Iqbal Hamza COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Scientists at the University of Maryland and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified for the first...
A promising avenue for the future of clean energy is to store it in the form of carbon-based fuels produced from renewable sources, effectively enabling...
Credit: iCeMS / Sivaniah Lab Around 2800BC, the ancient inhabitants of Ur, Mesopotamia made a discovery that was to change civilization. They learned that if...
Credit: © 2017 Christian Voolstra Excess nitrogen is shown to disrupt coral-algae symbiosis, triggering bleaching even in the absence of heat and light stress. With...
Credit: Michael Shribak, Irina Arkhipova WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Rotifers are tough, microscopic organisms highly resistant to radiation and repeated cycles of dehydration and rehydration....
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Heart muscle is one of the least renewable tissues in the body, which is one of the reasons that heart...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 5, 2017--The devastating effects of Zika virus on the brain of the developing fetus during...
Credit: Ann Ross Forensic anthropology researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that can provide an approximate age for juveniles and young...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has long had a stigma of being a painful and barbaric method of treatment, but a new study found that patients undergoing...
Credit: Juan. A. Amat Most bird chicks need parental care to survive. In biparental species the chicks have greater chances of success if both parents...
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - In recent years, smoking rates among adults in America have steadily declined; yet tobacco use remains the largest preventable cause...
