Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small ...

When an outing calls for upfront payment, such as admission to the cinema, a play or a theme park, the question of who covers ...

A new study published in Nanotechnology offers new hope for less harmful breast cancer therapy by combining two powerful, non ...

In a breakthrough that reimagines the way the gut and brain communicate, researchers have uncovered what they call a ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have discovered a key difference between the two main types of ...

A new study has revealed that autoantibodies—immune proteins traditionally associated with autoimmune disease—may profoundly ...

As plans for missions to Mars accelerate, so do questions about how the human body might cope. A return trip to the red planet would give more than enough time for someone to become pregnant and even ...

In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists have found that the brain's internal GPS changes each time we navigate a familiar, static environment.

While current treatments for schizophrenia—a mental illness affecting 1% of the world's population—can reduce certain symptoms, they have little effect on the cognitive deficits affecting the daily ...