Scientists from Northwestern Medicine in the USA collaborated with scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Hong Kong and have identified a drug that has the possibility of becoming the first treatment for aggressive meningiomas that recur.

A new technique developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) uses artificial intelligence to efficiently update the vegetation maps that are relied on by wildfire computer models to accurately predict fire behavior and spread.

The genetic origins of the first agriculturalists in the Neolithic period long seemed to lie in the Near East. A new study published in the journal Cell shows that the first farmers actually represented a mixture of Ice Age hunter-gatherer groups, spread from the Near East all the way to south-eastern Europe.

To confront the many challenges that infectious diseases pose to mankind head-on, a multi-disciplinary team of bioengineers, materials-scientists and immunologists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute has developed a broadly deployable biomaterials-based infection vaccine technology called “Omnivax.”

In a new study by Arizona State University, researchers have discovered a potential treatment for Parkinson’s disease wherein they are able to carry out a process for converting non-neuronal cells into functioning neurons in the brain which can then dispense dopamine and restore dopaminergic cells destroyed by the Parkinson’s disease.

Skin biopsies are no fun: doctors carve away small lumps of tissue for laboratory testing, leaving patients with painful wounds that can take weeks to heal. Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology are now developing a low-cost handheld device that could cut the rate of unnecessary biopsies in half.

Fish such as cichlids and stingrays are capable of performing simple calculations. A research study by the University of Bonn in Germany has revealed that fish can carry out addition and subtraction in the number range of one to five.

Within weeks of arriving on the world stage, Sars-Cov-2 has managed to encircle the globe, leaving illness, mortality and economic devastation in its vast wake. One of the central challenges facing health authorities and the medical community has been testing for the elusive virus on a sufficiently comprehensive scale.

A modification that creates more male offspring was able to eliminate populations of malaria mosquitoes in lab experiments.

With the help of nematode worms, researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust) were able to explore how short-term genetic memories can be inherited across different generations.