A new study has revealed that babies that are conceived after assisted reproductive technology are at a higher risk for heart defects. Researchers compared data on babies born following assisted reproduction, including IVF, intracytoplasmic sperm injection and embryo freezing, with data on babies conceived naturally.

Texas has witnessed 179 weather-related disasters that exceeded 1 billion dollars between 1980 and mid-June 2024. In this background, a new Extreme Weather Adaptation Lab has been established that will aim at helping community leaders to confront the escalating challenges posed by extreme climates.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced the Thermo Scientific Kingfisher Apex Dx, an automated nucleic acid purification instrument, and Applied Biosystems Magmax Dx Viral/Pathogen NA Isolation Kit for the isolation and purification of viral and bacterial pathogens from respiratory biological specimens.

Labs that can’t afford expensive super-resolution microscopes could use a new expansion technique to image nanoscale structures inside cells.

The Northwestern University has secured a funding of 11.7 million-dollars from the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health. With this, the University was able to launch a new center in order to address mental health problems in toddlers.

Researchers at the University of Bern and Bern University Hospital have developed a new test that has the potential to improve the clinical diagnosis of allergies in the future.

Scientists from the University of Virginia and EMBL have uncovered a surprising adaptation in yeast cells that helps them hibernate under nutrient stress, shedding new light on cancer cells’ ability to survive during nutrient shortages. This discovery could pave the way for innovative treatments that make cancer cells more vulnerable to starvation and easier to target.

A study has revealed that Heliconius butterflies can demonstrate a remarkable ability to learn and remember spatial information about their food sources. This ability is owing to their unusually expanded brain structures which display a fascinating mosaic pattern of neural expansion linked to a cognitive innovation.

Scientists have traced Earth’s volatile elements, essential for life, to meteorites using zinc’s unique chemical fingerprint. Their study reveals that unmelted asteroids were crucial in delivering the necessary volatiles, such as water, to Earth. This research not only sheds light on Earth’s origins but could also guide the search for habitable planets in distant star systems.

In a pioneering advance for drug development, scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (Kaist) have developed a pioneering technology that enables the precise and rapid editing of key atoms responsible for drug efficacy.