Camels are mentioned as pack animals in the biblical stories of Abraham, Joseph, and Jacob. But archaeologists have shown that ...

Montréal, February 3, 2014 – In a study published today by the medical journal Paediatrics ...

A "dark pool" may sound like a mysterious water source or an ...

A tropical low pressure area known as "System 94P" has tracked across western Queensland and moved into the Gulf of Carpentaria between Karumba and Gilbert River Mouth on February 3 as NASA's ...

Astrocytomas are the most common malignant brain tumors. While most patients' tumors prove to be ...

New research shows that babies not only pick up on their mother's stress, they also show corresponding physiological changes. "Our research shows that infants 'catch' and embody the physiological ...

This news release is available in Spanish, French, and Arabic. Geneva, 3 February 2014. Governments could slow – and even ...

Previous studies from ...

A large body of literature has shown that genetically-modified plants that produce proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) to protect themselves ...

Vitamin C and E supplements may blunt the improvement of muscular endurance – by disrupting cellular adaptions in exercised muscles – suggests a new study published today [3 February] in The Journal of Physiology. As vitamin ...

Chances are you won't know you've got a staph infection until the test results come in, days after the symptoms first appear. But what if your ...

Immune cells undergo 'spontaneous' changes on a daily basis that could lead to cancers if not for the diligent surveillance of our immune system, Melbourne scientists have found. The ...

Stanford researchers ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a protein critical to hematopoietic stem cell function and blood formation. The finding has potential ...

In many people with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, different parts of the brain don't talk to each other very well. Scientists have now identified, ...

A new study published in The Permanente Journal (Vol. 18, No.1) on ...

The more positively minority youth feel about their ethnicity or race, the fewer symptoms of depression and emotional and behavior problems they have. That's the ...

African American youth who report experiencing frequent discrimination during adolescence are at risk for developing heart disease, high blood pressure, ...

Previous research has suggested that shy children have difficulties with language. Now, a new longitudinal study paints a more nuanced picture. ...

Black children are twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma – a disparity due in large part to a greater burden of financial ...

A new study may alleviate concerns that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine leads to either the initiation ...

The February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR®) focuses on a variety of issues relating to clinical practice, practice management, health services ...

ANN ARBOR—In one of the first studies to show a significant association between BPA and cancer development, University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers have found liver tumors in mice exposed to the chemical ...

There are sleep cycles and there are also weight loss cycles. Almost everyone loses weight on weekdays and gains weight on ...

WASHINGTON - Single-sex education does not educate girls and ...