IBM's SoftLayer cloud-enabled World Community Grid to provide free virtual supercomputer power to The Scripps Research Institute to speed screening of promising chemical compounds.

Salk researchers tinker with a time-restricted diet in mice and find that it is remarkably forgiving.

Berkeley Lab reports proper copper levels essential to spontaneous neural activity.

A Creighton University physicist was part of an international team which explored the process involved in how cells combat bacterial infection and discovered new capabilities of cells fighting an infection. The team’s research was published Nov. 24, 2014, in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized two rules on Nov. 25 requiring that calorie information be listed on menus and menu boards in chain restaurants, similar retail food establishments and vending machines with 20 or more locations to provide consumers with more nutritional information about the foods they eat outside of the home. The rules are required by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The new transport system for DNA vaccines could help treat HIV, malaria, HPV and other major illnesses.

Patients who receive more cells get significant benefits. That’s a key lesson emerging from a clinical trial that was reported Nov. 17 at the American Heart Association meeting in Chicago.

The widespread overuse and misuse of antibiotics have led to antibiotic-resistant infections—and rising fatalities. Now, the federal government has turned to Rutgers to help develop a new generation of antibiotics.

What do pacemakers, prosthetic limbs, Iron Man and flu vaccines all have in common?

New research from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital shows that low blood vitamin D levels increase mortality. The study included 96,000 Danes and was recently published in the distinguished British Medical Journal.

A novel looping mechanism that involves the end caps of DNA may help explain the aging of cells and how they initiate and transmit disease, according to new research from UT Southwestern Medical Center cell biologists.

Students and professors develop a novel way to help those with visual impairment