Cambridge, UK, February 4, 2014 - A recent prospective study published in Reproductive BioMedicine Online comparing conventional IVF with a novel simplified laboratory method of culturing embryos suggested that fertilization ...

While the results of smoking may be expected to decrease fitness, new research, published in Respirology, has found that smokers are less physically active, lack motivation and are more likely to ...

Los Angeles, London (February 04, 2014). Smokers are increasingly turning to electronic cigarettes as a means to reduce the health impacts of their addiction. But legislators around the world are far from unified ...

Great eyes, full lips and harmonious features: actress Angelina Jolie is in possession of all of these. That she is regarded as ...

Philadelphia, Pa. (February 4, 2014) – Nearly one-third ...

CINCINNATI – Researchers used blood platelets and bone marrow cells to deliver potentially curative gene therapy to mouse models of the human genetic disorder Hurler ...

It is a big dream in science: To start from scratch with simple artificial microskopic building blocks and end up with something much more complex: living systemts, novel computers or every-day ...

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, beginning at 11:57 p.m. EST on Feb. 3, 2014, and peaking at midnight EST. NASA released images of the flare as captured ...

Washington, D.C.—New research shows that a remarkable defect in synthetic diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition allows researchers to measure, witness, and potentially manipulate electrons in a manner that could ...

New research from the University of Iowa supports the claim that tele-emergency services can successfully extend emergency care ...

Bacterial urinary tract infections are a painful nuisance. A team of researchers led by scientists ...

WASHINGTON (Feb. 4, 2014) – A new study by George Washington University (GW) researcher Michael Bukrinsky, M.D., Ph.D., shows similarities in the pathogenesis of prion disease — misfolded ...

AURORA, Colo. (Feb. 4, 2014) – While adults make up 95 percent of those who die annually from vaccine preventable diseases, ...

A study of 230 patients with bipolar I disorder whose symptoms were severe enough to warrant admission to a Rhode Island psychiatric hospital in 2010 reveals that more than a third were there despite taking four ...

PITTSBURGH—Facebook, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, is a proven success in what the late Nobel laureate ...

This news release is available in French. Montreal, February 4, 2014 — By 2018, it is estimated that the global pharmaceutical ...

The state of Qatar occupies a small peninsula of 11,500 km2 within the Arabian Peninsula. Both Qatar's population and economy have increased rapidly during the last decades, thus putting ...

Designing nanomedicine to combat diseases is a hot area of scientific research, primarily for treating cancer, but very little is known in the context of atherosclerotic disease. ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) can spread the lethal and ...

A new Dartmouth study provides the first evidence that people use the same brain circuitry to figure out space, time and social distances. The findings, which help reveal ...

A new study from the University of Iowa shows evidence that stock price movements are, in fact, predictable during short windows. The study by researchers in ...

When putting together a team of scientists to work on a problem, it makes sense to bring together the best and brightest in the field, right? Well, maybe not. In a newly published paper, a team of researchers from ...

Boston, MA – According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, breast cancer ...

Queen's University Belfast's world renowned cancer specialist, Professor Patrick Johnston, whose work has transformed cancer care in Northern Ireland, is now leading ...

Understanding and properly studying fear is partly a matter of correctly defining fear itself, New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux writes in a new essay published in Proceedings ...