Researchers have identified fragments from influenza B viruses that the immune system consistently recognise, offering promising targets for a universal influenza B vaccine.
Team led by a group of Chinese researchers cloned a specific gene that is resistant to Asian soybean rust amid Beijing’s focus on food security and tech self-reliance.
A man who was paralyzed from the neck down after a surfing accident seven years ago is now able to stand and walk on his own, thanks in part to a potentially groundbreaking stem cell treatment. Chris Barr was the very first patient in a Mayo Clinic study that collected stem cells from his own stomach fat, expanded them in a laboratory to 100 million cells and then injected the cells into Barr's lumbar spine. "I never dreamed I would have a recovery like this," Barr told ABC News' Will Reeve.
Do you have a big nose you hate? Or pointy features you find annoying? Well, blame your mother. A new study in Nature Communications suggests that your mother's pregnancy cravings is a big factor in how your facial features are shaped due to a complex interplay between More on pregnancy: People Unexpectedly Getting Pregnant […]
The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) would drop temps in the Northern Hemisphere by 40 degrees—ending life as we know it.
Despite being roughly 140 million miles away, Mars is triggering "giant whirlpools" in the Earth's oceans. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers analyzed samples from deep-sea drill sites to study deep ocean currents and how they strngethend and weakened over millions of years. According to their analysis, […]
The study is said to be the first to provide evidence of the direct impact of serotonin, a feel-good hormone, on the development of the prefrontal cortex, a key part of the brain.