The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases recently awarded Jonathan Wall, PhD, professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science...
The continuous improvement of imaging technology holds great promise in areas where visual detection is necessary, such as with cancer screening. Three-dimensional...
A new study from McGill, published recently in Developmental Cell, has made a significant advance in the field of epigenetics by identifying how environmental information...
Millions of people are administered general anesthesia each year in the United States alone, but it's not always easy to tell whether they are actually unconscious....
Researchers from TMDU identified a novel mechanism underlying hair thinning and loss during aging. By studying cell division of hair follicle stem cells in young...
A new review explores how higher temperatures influence plant growth and viability despite higher concentrations of atmospheric CO2.
The hummingbird is named after its pleasant humming sound. But only now has it become clear how the wing generates this sound. Researchers from Eindhoven University...
The ocean, a longtime reservoir for CFC-11, will become a source of the ozone-depleting chemical by middle of next century, a new MIT study finds.
Fingerprints may be more useful to us than helping us nab criminal suspects: they also improve our sense of touch. Sensory neurons in the finger can...
Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich have made wood compressible and turned it into a micro-generator. When it is loaded, an electrical voltage is generated. In...