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Credit: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) In recognition of their efforts to develop new treatments for fungal infections and stress-related...

Credit: Ian Grettenberger, University of California, Davis Neonicotinoids -- the most widely used class of insecticides -- significantly reduce populations of predatory insects when used...

BOSTON - A personalized cancer vaccine markedly improved outcomes for patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a potentially lethal blood cancer, in a clinical...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2016 - Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC have engineered a protein that reverses carbon monoxide (CO)...

Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands...

Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA/Goddard Rapid Response Team NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of newly formed Tropical Cyclone 05B in the Bay of Bengal, Northern...

A computer program is diving deep into water quality data from Pennsylvania, helping scientists detect potential environmental impacts of Marcellus Shale gas drilling. The work,...

Credit: (Photo by Jacquelynne Hernandez) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the government of Singapore'..

Simon Fraser University researchers have found that high-resolution brain scans, coupled with computational analysis, could play a critical role in helping to detect concussions that...

(SALT LAKE CITY) -- As a teenager just moved to Iowa from war-ravaged Germany in 1950, John M. Opitz, M.D., wanted to study developmental biology,...

The next time you place your coffee order, imagine slapping onto your to-go cup a sticker that acts as an electronic decal, letting you know...

microRNAs (miRNA) are recently discovered, short segments of RNA, which play vital roles in health and disease. microRNA over- or under-abundance can switch critical disease...

Credit: University of Illinois In contradicting a theory that's been the standard for over eighty years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have...

Credit: Irina Kufareva, PhD, UC San Diego Inflammation is a good thing when it's fighting off infection, but too much can lead to autoimmune diseases...

Children exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke show measurable amounts of the drug in their bodies, a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...