Maple trees are best known for their maple syrup and lovely fall foliage. But it turns out that the beauty of those leaves could be skin-deep

Why do individuals carrying identical gene mutations for a disease end up having varying severity or symptoms of the disease?

Swedish biotech BioLamina relies on Testa Center to expand

A platinum-gold alloy developed by a team from Sandia National Laboratories is 100 times more durable than high-strength steel

Salivary proteins could be part of a feedback loop that influences how food tastes to people—and by extension, what foods they're willing to eat

“High risk, high reward” is the kind of discovery Dr. Garry Grubbs seeks with a new experiment designed to rapidly identify the atomic structure of chiral molecules widely used in pharmaceutical drugs

Effects of protein composition and concentration detailed in a new study from the Journal of Dairy Science

Although immunotherapy is seen as a very promising treatment for cancer, currently only 20 to 30 percent of patients respond positively

Hastings Center Report, co-edited by UCSF bioethicist, outlines ethics and policy recommendations on genome-wide sequencing of newborns

The organic preservative comprises a naturally-occurring substance known as "flavonoids"

The impact aerosols have on the climate varies greatly depending on where they were released

Transmission of toxoplasmosis from mother to fetus can lead to severe congenital problems and fetal death