Tantalizing notions of long life, even immortality, have always been part of human consciousness, recurring in religion, literature, cinema, music, even consumer goods.The opening chapters of the Old ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is expected “in the coming days” to announce a new strategy to fight the escalating ...

In a new book, Nafis Hasan writes about how America's ongoing "war on cancer" is going and points out factors that might be ...

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A mutation of bird flu virus, which is able to enhance the ability of the infection to infect mammals, has been identified in Sakhalin region of the Russian Federation, reports Rospotrebnadzor.

In a global study led by Dr Brian Chung Hong-yin (left), the HKUMed research team identifies a novel gene, DDX39B, for a rare ...

The country’s poor public health response to the outbreak is rooted in the inability to bring in dairy farmers as partners.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review to Boehringer Ingelheim’s new drug application (NDA) ...

California-based nonprofit Arc Institute and Stanford University, in collaboration with NVIDIA, unveiled Evo 2 on Wednesday ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday it's purchased 500,000 doses of a human vaccine to protect against avian influenza for those most at risk from being exposed to the virus by infected ...

An inhalable medicine with the potential to improve lung disease in people with cystic fibrosis, irrespective of their mutation type, is being tested in human trials in the UK and Europe.

Michael M. Desai, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Physics, hopes to leverage the common fungus to ...