“It is believed that environmental and life-style factors, such as diet, plays a critical role in increasing human breast cancer risk, and so we use animal models to reveal the biological mechanisms responsible for the increase in risk in women and their female progeny,” researcher says

Results shed new light on what's happening today

Discovery provides potential target for vaccines, treatments

Scientists are using lasers to take the mystery out of the process of identifying the chemical compositions of fingermarks at a crime scene

Archaeological study is the first to identify a spud-bearing species native to the southwestern United States, Solanum jamesii, as an important part of ancient human diets

The technology could also enable a new class of devices that can be powered by harvesting energy from low-power sources, such as the body or the surrounding environment, researchers said

Study highlights poor reporting to the FDA of potentially harmful cosmetic products and calls for better data along with policy changes

UBC research provides new clues to how trees adapt to a changing climate

A new technique has been developed to tackle illegal logging by pinpointing the wood's origin to a smaller area than ever before 

Researchers made the unexpected finding that bacteria that mutated to become resistant to quinolone antibiotics also became more resistant to triclosan

Some plant species are able to remove soil contaminants and grow normally, but these are a small minority

Overall, none of the hormones a research team studied had any replicable, consistent effect on study participants' cognition