Berkeley Lab researchers assess health impacts of inhalable constituents of thirdhand tobacco smoke.

"Patenting a gene is like patenting the water we drink and the air we breathe," says hospital's CEO.

Research in fruit flies helps explain why

Niche Diagnostics Center of Excellence develops and manufactures products used worldwide in healthcare and other markets.

Understanding networks paramount to solving humankind's most challenging questions.

Scientists at EPFL have used a new imaging technique to monitor how glucose, our main energy source, is used in the body. Their findings may have great implications for diseases like diabetes.

Researchers uncovered a new class of lipids in humans that is linked to reduced inflammation and improved blood sugar levels in diabetes.

The switch controls the growth of telomeres, the timekeepers of cells.

Fats are often considered the enemy of good nutrition, but when included in a healthy diet they can boast several potential health benefits. In the September issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Contributing Editor Linda Milo Ohr writes about how fatty acids and nutritional oils may benefit cognition, weight management, heart health, eye and brain development, and even mood. 

When they are not busy attacking us, germs go after each other. But when viruses invade bacteria, it doesn’t always spell disaster for the infected microbes: Sometimes viruses actually carry helpful genes that a bacterium can harness to, say, expand its diet or better attack its own hosts.