Ovarian cancer is the most deadly gynecological kind, it claims the lives of more than 50% of women who are diagnosed Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed late and develops a resistance to chemotherapy…

Retinoblastoma is a childhood retinal tumor usually affecting children ages one to two and the most common malignant tumor of the eye in children. Left untreated, retinoblastoma can be fatal or…

'To be, or not to be' male or female? Maxine Peake plays Hamlet. Credit: Jonathan Keenan/Royal Exchange Theatre By Mareile Pfannebecker, University of Manchester The ghost, in this autumn’s Royal…

The public supports most traffic safety laws. They routinely defy cell phone laws, believing that they should be pulled over for driving recklessly, not for having a cell phone, and they defy speed…

Astronomers have discovered clear skies and steamy water vapor on a planet known as HAT-P-11b - outside our solar system. HAT-P-11b is about the size of Neptune, making it the smallest exoplanet ever…

A 1997 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule allowed food manufacturers to use ingredients "generally regarded as safe," or GRAS, like vinegar and lots of other things, without needing approval all…

When Curiosity's successor and ExoMars land on Mars around 2021, we will see two different approaches to the search for life on Mars side by side. NASA's mission is the first stage of a two decade…

In the future, new organs will be created from a patient's own stem cells and they will require no waiting lists, no immunosuppressive drugs, and no stickers on drivers licenses making people…

Knowing your DNA will is not a panacea. Credit: PA/Harvard University By Walter Gilbert, Harvard University Walter Gilbert won the Nobel Prize in 1980 in Chemistry for his contribution to sequence…

How people perceive and taste alcohol depends on genetic factors, and that influences whether they "like" and consume alcoholic beverages, according to a nutritionist and colleagues at Penn…

The iPhone 6 is apparently flexible, though that's a not a good thing; people are warping them when they sit down, and people without abnormal strength can simply twist them in their hands. But that…

While it is well-known that Americans conserve electricity more than, for example, Canadians, and that CO2 emissions from energy productions have plummeted to 20 year lows without raising prices, an…

Researchers have developed two new anticancer peptide vaccines and two peptide inhibitors as part of a larger peptide immunotherapy effort, according to two studies published in  OncoImmunology.…

Natural gas hydraulic fracturing - fracking - has been wonderful for CO2 emissions while keeping energy costs for poor people manageable but a few sites have been treating fracking wastewater and…

A new study by researchers found that the majority of players were able to return to play after having knee surgery to repair an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. But age matters. athletes who…

Head and neck cancer underway. Credit: Akira Kouchiyama, CC BY-SA By Emma King, University of Southampton and Christian Ottensmeier, University of Southampton Immune cells in the blood primarily…

The NFL is putting the final touches on a new drug policy.This new policy, which is the first major update since the last policy in 2010, is between the NFL Players Association and the NFL. The…

A key indicator of how successfully one species of monkey will breed can be determined by skin color, a new study has shown. Skin coloration in male and female rhesus macaques is an inherited…

A glimpse of wild brumbies in the Snowy Mountains. Credit: Michael Tristram/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Don Driscoll, Australian National University and Sam Banks, Australian National University When you…

So much for patriarchy. When it comes to evolution, female populations have always been larger than male populations throughout human history, according to a new study in Investigative Genetics which…