A team of researchers have uncovered a genetic mutation in a non-coding region of DNA that alters the regulation of the ...

For the first time, researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute have proven that a mild stress is enough to trigger ...

New analysis of two locks of Beethoven’s hair proves the composer had high levels of lead in his system – but not high enough to be considered the sole cause of his death.

In this article, we consider what neutrophils are, how they are generated, their function in the body and medical conditions related to them.

Climate "flickering" can precede a permanent change in climate, as illustrated at the end of Africa's humid period.

Considered one of the world's worst aquatic weeds, a northern hydrilla subspecies is invading new waterways in the US very quickly.

A study brings new understanding to how absorptive intestinal epithelial cells, or IECs, and T cells work together to defend the gut barrier.

More than 100 years ago, scientists at The University of Manchester changed the world when they discovered the nucleus in atoms, marking the birth of nuclear physics.

In a randomized clinical trial including adults who vaped nicotine e-cigarettes but did not smoke cigarettes, a 12-week course of cytisinicline, a plant-based medication, was more effective at helping ...

Researchers have found that the immune status of postpartum mothers shifts with how they feed their babies, revealing fluctuations in inflammatory proteins that correlate with feeding type.

Freshwater bacteria with small genomes frequently undergo prolonged periods of adaptive stagnation. Based on genomic analyses of samples from Lake Zurich and other European lakes, researchers at the ...

A pressure of 3,000 bar is applied to the cold shock protein B of Bacillus subtilis in a small tube in the NMR spectroscopy laboratory at the University of Konstanz. This is roughly three times the ...