Month: June 2016

In making tough, life-changing decisions, people often weigh the risks associated with the options before them and choose accordingly. Now ...

An international team of scientists from Oxford University, UK, and Tel-Hai College, Israel, has shown that pea plants can demonstrate ...

Credit: Photo by Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- Saint Louis University vaccine researchers have received $1.3 million in federal ...

CHICAGO: For the majority of patients with large or difficult to remove colorectal polyps (growths in the colon), the incidence ...

Increased risk for aggressive serous/serous-like endometrial cancer was increased in women with BRCA1 mutations, although the overall risk for uterine ...

BARCELONA-LUGANO, 30 June 2016 - Oral multikinase inhibitor regorafenib achieves significantly improved survival rates compared to placebo in patients with ...

DURHAM, N.C. - Women who carry the BRCA1 gene mutation that dramatically increases their risk of breast and ovarian cancers ...

Credit: University of Huddersfield RESEARCH by a University of Huddersfield scientist could aid the development of new strains of wheat ...

Credit: Photo: Citizen Schools Corporate volunteering programs are widely credited by business leaders and volunteers for giving participants valuable work-related ...

Credit: University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Two researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture ...

Since the completion of the human genome an important goal has been to elucidate the function of the now known ...

The 16th Plymouth Symposium on Obesity, Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome will take place on Thursday 7th July at the ...

An emerging field, known as implementation science, may help reduce the nearly 150,000 instances of mother-to-child HIV transmissions that occur ...

Researchers at Cardiff University have found that online information about ovarian cancer can cause as much worry as comfort for ...

Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras -- stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere -- ...

Credit: Rui Prieto When a team of researchers began listening in on seven sperm whales in the waters off the ...

Loading video... Credit: SISSA Messenger RNA (mRNA) is made up of exons and introns, that is, portions of genetic information ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed low-cost chemical sensors, made from chemically altered carbon nanotubes, that enable smartphones or ...

High energy radiation affects biological tissues, leading to short-term reactions. These generate, as a secondary product, electrons with low energy, ...

Credit: Electron Microscopy Unit, IGC. Antibiotics and the immune system are the two forces that cope with bacterial infections. Now, ...