The final days of December mark your last opportunity to plant bulbs if you're hoping for a colourful spring display. Yet garden pests and wildlife, particularly squirrels, may feast on your bulbs ...

Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and ...

This is part 2 of a two-part post. Part 1 can be found here. Triggers are typically childhood wounds that never fully healed, such that they are now sensitive areas that, when “triggered” by something ...

Viruses can serve as triggers of autoimmune disease by acting as adjuvants, leading to the priming of autoantigen-specific lymphocytes. Autoantigen-reactive T and B cells can also be activated ...

The identification of promising lead compounds from high-throughput screens is still a very complex problem. A new high-throughput assay for identifying aggregation-based false positives could help.

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Fireflies produce light through a chemical reaction involving two key compounds: luciferin and luciferase. The first compound glows under specific conditions and resists heat, ...