Month: May 2014

In the movies, humans often fear invaders from Mars. These days, scientists are more concerned…

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured its first-ever image of the pale blue ice-giant planet Uranus…

New pharmaceuticals to fight autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, may…

Mice lacking one copy of a gene called CTCF have abnormal DNA methylation and are…

Obesity increases the risk of myeloma, and with obesity rates climbing particularly in the Hispanic…

Large sets of variations in the genetic code that do not individually appear to have…

Since the start of an international effort to address maternal and child mortality, millions of…

Women with high levels of a common liver enzyme measured prior to pregnancy were twice…

The way bacteria exploits human proteins during infections has recently become better understood, thanks to…

The UK has one of the highest rates of death for children under five in…