Health Sciences and Technology News

Exciting research into Brown adipose tissue (BAT) -- brown fat, which is found in abundance in hibernating animals and newborn babies -- could lead to new ways of preventing obesity.

Scientists have used a new vaccine production technology to develop a vaccine for norovirus, a dreaded cause of diarrhea and vomiting that may be the second most common viral infection in the United States after the flu.

New insight into how human cells reproduce, published by cancer researchers at Michigan State University and the Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, could help scientists move closer to finding an “off switch” for cancer.

Painless patch may someday render hypodermic needles, as well as annual flu shots, a thing of the past.

Bacterium that causes human stomach ulcers uses a clever biochemical strategy to alter the physical properties of its environment, allowing it to move and survive and further colonize its host.

The emergence of new forms of tuberculosis could swell the proportion of drug-resistant cases globally, a new study has found.

Researchers have identified a protein that could serve as a target for reprogramming immune system cells exhausted by exposure to chronic viral infection into more effective “soldiers” against certain viruses like HIV, hepatitis C, and hepatitis B.

Seven out of ten U.S. children have low levels of vitamin D, raising their risk of bone and heart disease.

Journal, not only explains resveratrol's one-two punch on inflammation, but also show how it or a derivative can be used to treat potentially deadly inflammatory disease, such as appendicitis, peritonitis, and systemic sepsis.

New insight into the identity of the natural host of this deadly disease.