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The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun dies, according to a...

Credit: Diamond Light Source Scientists from UCL have used the UK's synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, to document for the first time the rate of...

Credit: Kumar R, et al. (2017) A subspecies of the bacterium Streptococcus gallolyticus appears to actively promote the development of colorectal cancer, according to new...

Summertime is barbecue time. However, when fat reacts with glowing coal, a substance chemists call benzopyrene is created. It is a widespread environmental toxin that...

Credit: Sharon Tooze Scientists have made an important step in understanding how cells keep themselves clean and healthy - a finding that may have implications...

Credit: OUHSC BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named John J. Mulvihill, MD, Children's Hospital Foundation--Kimberly V. Talley Chair in...

A ground-breaking new class of oral drugs for treating breast cancer, known as cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitors, are generally well-tolerated, with a manageable toxicity profile...

Men who are tall and obese are at increased risk of high grade prostate cancer and prostate cancer death, according to a study published in...

Washington (July 13, 2017)--On behalf of the American College of Physicians (ACP), today ACP wrote Senate leaders to reaffirm our strongest possible opposition to the...

Singapore, 14 July 2017 - A team of scientists and doctors from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) has uncovered a new group of...

Credit: UNSW The prestigious Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica for 2017 has been awarded to (University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)...

Credit: Ruth Callaway, Swansea University Fifteen stunning images, and the fascinating stories behind them -- such as how a barn owl's pellets reveal which animals...

Credit: André Baumgarten/WCS HAVANA, Cuba (July 13, 2017) - Experts from WCS's Global Conservation Programs and WCS's Bronx Zoo assisted Cuban conservationists in the recent...

Credit: Stand Up To Cancer Stand Up To Cancer and the St. Baldrick's Foundation welcomed the Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee's (ODAC) strong recommendation for approval...

Credit: Kessler Foundation Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, Peii Chen, PhD, Ekaterina Dobyrakova, PhD, and Soha Saleh, PhD, all of Kessler Foundation, have won the majority of...