World’s biggest terrestrial carbon sinks are found in young forests

More than half of the carbon sink in the world's forests is in areas where the…

Helping patients breathe during dangerous procedure prevents complications

A new study is showing that using bag-mask ventilation, squeezing air from a bag into the…

Very early marker of cardiac damage triggered by cancer treatment

Researchers have identified a very early marker of cardiac damage in patients undergoing therapy with anthracyclines,…

Tuberculosis: Commandeering a bacterial ‘suicide’ mechanism

The bacteria responsible for tuberculosis can be killed by a toxin they produce unless it is…

DMD: Single CRISPR treatment provides long-term benefits in mice

Researchers have shown that a single systemic treatment using CRISPR genome editing technology can safely and…

How 3D arrangement of DNA helps perpetuate the species

From fathers to children, the delivery of hereditary information requires the careful packing of DNA in…

Researchers find trigger that turns strep infections into flesh-eating disease

Scientists discovered a previously unknown trigger that turns run-of-the-mill strep infections into the flesh-eating disease childbed…

Biodiversity on land is not higher today than in the past, study shows

The rich levels of biodiversity on land seen across the globe today are not a recent…

Depression reversed in male mice by activating gene that helps excite neurons

Directly activating a gene important to exciting our excitatory neurons and associated with major depression may…

Advancing therapy by measuring the ‘games’ cancer cells play

Despite rapid advances in targeted therapies for cancer, tumors commonly develop resistance to treatment. When resistance…