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Does the time of day matter when our body is infected by a parasite? According to new research from McGill University, it matters a great...

Credit: CDC Data and Statistics Fatal Injury Report 2015 and University of Utah Health Even today, suicide is a taboo topic often discussed in whispers...

Credit: University of Arizona The University of Arizona has licensed a new, non-penetrating sunscreen to MexiAloe Laboratories, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Novamex. The...

Credit: Vetmeduni Vienna Mice, like birds, are natural born singers. From birth, they emit a wide repertoire of vocalizations especially in the ultrasonic range, which...

Credit: The illustration is made by Þórhallur Þráinsson (© Neil Price). War was not an activity exclusive to males in the Viking world. A new...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Immunosuppressive regulatory T-cells play an important role in the functioning of adipose tissue. This is...

The water level of the Dead Sea drops by more than one meter per year. Thousands of sinkholes, sudden strong rainfall events and flash floods...

Men build dams and huge turbines to turn the energy of waterfalls and tides into electricity. To produce hydropower on a much smaller scale, Chinese...

Led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine with the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, the team analysed the information relating to cancer which appears...

Can we target cancer's evolutionary and ecological nature? Many biological systems are resilient to shocks, having the ability to return to a previous state following...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina, courtesy of Dr. Besim Ogretmen Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who are positive for human papilloma...

Human papillomavirus 16 accounts for about half of all cervical cancers, but researchers reporting September 7 in the journal Cell have found that not all...

Immunotherapy is a promising approach in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, an aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer; but for most patients, immunotherapy drugs...

New York, NY (September 7, 2017)--Cancer immunotherapy drugs only work for a minority of patients, but a generic drug now used to increase blood flow...

University of Texas at Arlington researchers have established a link between hypoxia, a condition that reduces the flow of oxygen to tissues, and HOTAIR, a...