A study reveals that the Latin American jatobá plant has powerful anti-inflammatory compounds in its bark, leaves, and seeds.

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The U.S. childhood immunization schedule, the grid of colored bars pediatricians share with parents, recommends a set of vaccines given from birth through adolescence to prevent a range of serious ...

The microbial toxin colibactin has just the right shape to snuggle up to DNA — but its embrace is unfortunately more cancerous than cozy. Colibactin is produced by bacteria in the gut and causes ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

In this GEN webinar, DNA synthesis experts Michael Junkin, PhD, and Brittany Enzmann, PhD, will provide an exclusive first look at Elegen’s GEN II Cell-Free DNA production platform that combines ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to show how a cell closes the door to free radicals—small oxygen molecules ...

In laboratory models, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that a mother's circadian ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.