ANSTO’s Principle Technical Consultant, Mr. Michael Druce, received the prestigious Public Service Medal on Australia Day for his near 40-year commitment to nuclear medicine production. more

Just one minute of exercise per week is enough to provide health benefits to people over the age of 65,... more

Higher serum long-chain omega-3 fatty acid concentration, a marker for fish consumption, was beneficially associated with cardiac performance in middle-aged and older men from eastern Finland. more

Benchling, the leading life sciences R&D cloud platform, today announced the launch of Benchling for Lab Automation, a new solution to help... more

Nicoya, a leading provider of advanced analytical instruments for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, today announced the launch of Alto, the world’s first fully-automated, high-throughput benchtop surface plasmon... more

For the benefit of healthcare professionals, medical researchers and the public, Elsevier, a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, has created a Novel Coronavirus Information Center with... more

A new research project funded by the British Heart Foundation at the University of Manchester aims to find a way to slow down the... more

An eminent philanthropist and three time cancer survivor Dr James Hull has joined forces with six universities across the country to investigate... more

Analytik has published a white paper that provides an informative introduction to particle size characterization using the Differential Centrifugal Sedimentation technique. more

The rare genetic disease CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder has been designated with a new disease code in the International Classification of Diseases, the... more

Microbes are often seen as pathogens that cause disease, but the picture is actually more complex than that limited view. more

An international research team which includes specialists from ITMO University has conducted a series of experiments with the goal of studying the immune system and identifying... more

Each year, more than 100 million newborns around the world receive vaccinations against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or TB, which infects about one-quarter of the world's population. more

A new analysis of cancer drug development by researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, shows that the more revolutionary a new cancer drug is,... more

Human cells have a defense mechanism that protects them from microbial attacks, a Canadian-led team of international researchers has discovered. more

City design combining more public transport and rail networks with smaller, low speed blocks are the best to reduce road transport injuries, according to a new... more

High levels of protein in a patient's urine shortly after an episode of acute kidney injury... more

For people with psychiatric disorders, comorbidity — or the presence of two or more disorders in a single patient — is quite common. One of the... more

JDRF, the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes research, today announced new research that found widespread screening for islet autoantibodies reduced the occurrence of life-threatening... more

The use of orthobiologics is a hot trend in orthopedics, but new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham shows wide variability in cost for these therapies. more

Chinese meat markets sell the usual poultry, beef and pork and other forms of meat including rodents, yaks, snakes, tortoises, porcupines etc. With the rising number of people... more

Novel coronavirus, temporarily named “2019-nCoV”, has affected over 4,600 persons across the world and is spreading at a rapid pace say experts. The World Health Organization and other health organizations have stepped up vigilance to detect and isolate... more

There is a long-established and widely recognized link between declines in sensory acuity -- particularly hearing and vision -- and cognition. Data from the... more

A new research tool that mimics the behavior of diseased bone marrow provides a new strategy for understanding the bone marrow disease, Shwachman-Diamond syndrome, and hopefully, developing new... more

It is important to discover antibiotic drugs and to bring them to clinical use, a task made all the more urgent by the increase in the number of infections that are resistant to existing antibiotics. However,... more

American and British teams led by Drs Kohn (University of California, Los Angeles), Malech (NIH), Williams (Boston Children's) and Trasher (Great Ormond Street Institute of Child... more

Chinese meat markets sell the usual poultry, beef and pork and other forms of meat including rodents, yaks, snakes, tortoises, porcupines etc. With the rising number of people... more

Obesity is now considered a global health epidemic, affecting millions of people worldwide. In morbidly obese patients, the extra weight has taken a toll on their overall health,... more

In the health agency’s report, there were 49,029 diagnoses made in 2018, which is about 8,000 more than the previous year, surpassing breast cancer with 47,476 cases. Lung... more

In 2019, the emergence of mysterious lung disease in the United States has sparked global health attention. Now named as the e-cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury (EVALI), the disease causes... more

The type of salamander called axolotl, with its frilly gills and widely spaced eyes, looks like... more

Angela Grippo's New Year's resolution is exercise, exercise, exercise, but the Northern Illinois University psychology professor won't be breaking a sweat or hitting the... more

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors today approved $12.2 million to fund four studies comparing the... more

When the first U.S. case of a new coronavirus spreading throughout China was confirmed last week in Washington state, public health workers were well... more

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have mapped how different nerve cells in the brain area striatum process information to plan and execute our... more

Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced over $1.3 million in funding to support Global BioImaging, an international network of bioimaging facilities and communities. more

A group led by a researcher affiliated with the University of São Paulo's São Carlos Chemistry Institute (IQSC-USP) in Brazil has developed a novel palladium compound that acts against ovarian tumor cells... more

Research by a University of Georgia psychologist shows that targeting one particular symptom of schizophrenia has a positive effect on other symptoms, offering significant promise for treating an... more

At present, a focus on males in basic research and clinical trials means that models of disease are also based on men. Symptoms and disease progression in male... more

A pair of biomarkers of brain function -- one that represents "listening effort," and another that measures ability to process rapid changes in frequencies -- may... more

An artificial neural network has identified a square structure within a triangular one in a crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, with several people agreeing on... more

Most cancers are caused by a large variety of factors that vary from one person to another. To unravel this complexity, genes that contribute to the development of... more

Cheesy scrambled eggs, meatloaf, chicken parmesan and pie. It wouldn't be an unusual tally of meals consumed by a patient admitted to a hospital... more

The vaccine that prevents infection from human papillomavirus (HPV) is nothing short of a medical marvel. more

Administration of zinc acetate lozenges to common cold patients did not shorten colds in a randomized trial published in BMJ Open. more

Is it possible to create a truly bushfire-resistant house? What's the best way to donate to bushfires? How can you tell fact from fake news in this era of Twitter bots? How... more

New insight on how information relating to sound and movement is processed in the brain has been published today in the open-access journal eLife. more

Hives afflict 1 in 5 people, but the exact mechanisms behind the itchy red rashes are not well known. The research team studied the patterns of hives in patients and reproduced the... more

Researchers at UPF are testing a new non-invasive method of stimulating the vagus nerve in mice that improves their memory. more

For more than 50 years, social scientists and practitioners have suggested that having members of different groups interact with each other can be an effective tool... more