Adding bile acids as farnesoid X receptor agonists to the culture medium supported the growth and development of unique stem ...

The health of U.S. children has deteriorated over the past 17 years, with kids today more likely to have obesity, chronic ...

"The best place for ticks is your armpits and groin because they are warm, moist, and a good source of blood," says pest ...

Scientists sometimes compare predicting the course of epidemics to forecasting the weather. But there's a major ...

Scientists believe they might have found a cure for debilitating autoimmune diseases off the back of a groundbreaking new ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often became disabled or lost their lives to whooping cough, ...

Other prion diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, have affected humans. Mad cow claimed the lives of more than 200 ...

Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, hyperaware that pathogens can jump from animals to humans at any ...

The growth in the numbers of zoonotic diseases highlights how human activities have strained the natural world and our relationship with it. We live closer to animals, impinging on their habitats.

Though Human Domainome 1 is around 4.5 times bigger than previous libraries of protein variants, it still only covers 2.5% of known human proteins.

Proving that bedbugs transmit human disease would mean demonstrating three key things: first, that those microorganisms can survive and thrive in the body of a bedbug.

Countries can leverage a rapidly aging population for health, societal, human capital, and economic gains. Investing in health and wellbeing throughout people’s lives starting with maternal and child ...