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Scientists have identified the sticky substance that is damaging the feathers of hundreds seabirds washed ashore in England as an additive for lubricant oils.
One of the most advanced tuberculosis vaccines has failed to protect infants from getting the disease in a clinical trial, but it may be effective in adults.
A company offering experimental stem-cell treatments will carry out its procedures in Mexico after the FDA warned that it would need approval to operate in the U.S.
Domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year, making them a top threat to US wildlife.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
A drug applied to the ears of deaf mice has prompted the regrowth of noise-damaged hair cells and resulted in slight improvements in the animals’ hearing.
Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
Elwood Jensen, whose research inspired new treatments for breast cancer, has passed away at age 92.
After undergoing untested cosmetic surgery that uses stem cells to rejuvenate skin, a woman grew bone fragments in the flesh around one of her eyes.
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