With the exception of infectious diseases, examination of the environmental causes of illness has been piecemeal. Gary Miller, a toxicologist at Columbia University who also addressed the meeting, ...

Researchers at McGill University have improved the efficiency of a method for converting human urine into clean energy. The method employs microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use bacteria to turn ...

Nucleotide synthesis—the production of the basic components of DNA and RNA—is essential for cell growth and division. In most ...

People who commonly experience everyday discrimination are more likely to have higher levels of "exhausted" white blood cells, suggesting that the chronic stress of discrimination may hamper the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests. As the world gathers at ...

When it comes to inclusion, artificial intelligence doesn’t have the best track record. As vast algorithms trained on troves of data scraped from the internet, AI models are inherently predisposed to ...

An aerial view of the UC San Diego campus. (FIle photo courtesy of UCSD) Key discoveries in the human immune system have led UC San Diego alum Fred Ramsdell to receive a Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans Olivia Ferrari Sea lampreys have large neurons and synapses, making them ...

Officials confirmed the human remains found in the Hamilton sewer system last month was a skull from an unknown man. A forensic pathologist and forensic anthropologist inspected the skull and ...

Human bones were found in the sewer system in Hamilton and the discovery is reopening wounds for local families who have missing loved ones. On Wednesday, a routine maintenance inspection in Hamilton ...

A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published ...