But surprising new Northwestern Medicine research on the brains of individuals 90 years and older who had superior memories until their deaths revealed widespread and dense Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles

Scientists from the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Austria (IMBA) have now unraveled the precise mechanisms by which germline cells produce a class of small RNA

Berkeley and Illinois researchers increase plant proteins that result in more efficient use of sunlight

Rutgers’ Sonia Tikoo helped perform groundbreaking Chicxulub crater study

Food allergy occurs in one of every 13 children in the U.S., nearly 6 million, and the incidence is increasing

The benefits are two-fold: The process removes harmful CO₂ from the atmosphere, and the diesel can be used as an alternative fuel to gasoline

The test could lead to rapid, low cost roadside testing for cocaine use

“Farmers have many questions about what the new federal law requires of them, and how that will play out when the law is enforced at the state level," specialist says

Discovery could help explain links between maternal allergies and ADHD, autism

In healthy healing, particular lipids that the body produces from essential dietary fat appear to act as signals to resolve the early acute inflammation, including a group of lipids called resolvins

Wiping out an entire forest can have significant effects on global climate patterns and alter vegetation on the other side of the world, according to a study led by the University of Washington

“The structure is an important step toward explaining how cannabinoids initiate signals in the brain that affect the release of neurotransmitters that relay messages between the brain’s neurons,” researcher says