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It’s happened with predictable regularity, every spring since International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) opened its center in San Pedro in 2001.

Researchers have determined that copper surfaces are significantly better than stainless steel at protecting against influenza A exposure.

Expert explains why contaminations are likely to continue and what should be done to improve U.S. oversight of imported animal and human food ingredients.

Sex makes you fat. If you’re a female tick, that is. The “truly gluttonous” female ixodid tick increases her weight an astounding 100 times her original size after she mates, so a University of Alberta researcher investigated what it is about copulation t

Morphine stops the synapse-strengthening process in the brain known as long-term potentiation at inhibitory synapses. Research also supports a provocative new theory of addiction as a disease of learning and memory.

Sleep not only protects memories from outside interferences, but also helps strengthen them, according to research presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 59th Annual Meeting in Boston.

A study carried out by researchers from the University of Granada’s Institute of Biotechnology shows that consuming melatonin neutralizes oxidative damage and delays the neurodegenerative process of aging.

How your food is cooked may be as important to your health as the food itself. Researchers now know more about a new class of toxins that might soon become as important a risk factor for heart disease and metabolic disorders as trans fats.

Findings described in a new study by Stanford scientists may be the first step toward a major revolution in human regenerative medicine—a future where advanced organ damage can be repaired by the body itself.

An analysis of nearly 300 umbilical cord blood samples led by researchers at John Hopkins shows that newborn babies are exposed to perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) while in the womb.