Month: April 2017

In the decades since Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine, cases of polio…

Despite successful treatment, people receiving antiretroviral drugs continue to have small amounts of human immunodeficiency…

Macrophages have a previously unrecognized role in helping the mammalian heart beat in rhythm. Researchers…

In people born with one hand, the brain region that would normally light up with…

Deprived of oxygen, naked mole-rats can survive by metabolizing fructose just as plants do —…

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural…

Working with genetically engineered mice — and especially their whiskers — researchers report they have…

Two scientists have discovered how fat levels in a tiny soil-dwelling roundworm (C. elegans) can…

World hunger and biodiversity loss can both be addressed by ensuring that women worldwide have…

The lungs secrete a specialized enzyme capable of destroying chitin, without which chitin particles inhaled…