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Credit: Bioarchaeology International Bioarchaeology is a young but quickly growing field that studies how people from the past lived and died, and is most often...

Credit: Jon Weidanz The University of Texas at Arlington has awarded three new seed grants for interdisciplinary research projects that propose new ways to treat...

Credit: BES Photo Archive (Millbrook, NY) A new study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology reports that in Baltimore, Maryland, neighborhoods with high levels...

Credit: Daisy Leung By age 2, most children have been infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which usually causes only mild cold symptoms. But people...

Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Institute ..

Credit: Photo: Jürgen Bauhus As the climate change progresses, droughts are expected to become more and more common and more intense in Europe, as in...

The longitudinal study on children and adolescents conducted by the Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Turku, Finland, is...

Cleveland Clinic researchers have uncovered a biological link between gut bacteria metabolism and obesity. The team showed that blocking a specific intestinal microbial pathway can...

Credit: MORI Sayoko, TOMA Tsugutaka New light has been shed on a misclassified vine species in the Ryukyu Islands of East Asia. This plant was...

Credit: University of Seville Genome instability is the main risk factor in the development of tumours in humans. Understanding how, where, when and why these...

An influenza infection in birds gives a good protection against other subtypes of the virus, like a natural vaccination, according to a new study. Water...

For the past week, 28 Nobel Laureates and 420 international young scientists have dedicated themselves to central topics in chemistry, and have discussed the role...

Credit: © IUCN Elena Osipova Gland, Switzerland, 30 June 2017 (IUCN) - Illegal fishing, logging and poaching, are impacting two-thirds of the 57 natural World...

(University of Bristol) Understanding modern biodiversity and extinction threats is important. It is commonly assumed that being large contributes to vulnerability during extinction crises. However,...

Particle-driven diseases sound exotic and include things like silicosis and asbestos, but actually also include much more common diseases like Alzheimer's, gout and even atherosclerosis....