If the pharma giant doesn’t cut prices, it could lose its patent protection to generics. Colombia’s government is giving pharmaceutical giant Novartis a few weeks to...
For more than 80 years doctors have believed that stomach acid backing up through the esophagus causes the damage to the lining of the esophagus in...
An HIV vaccine may be closer to becoming a reality. A team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified a powerful antibody in the...
A new experimental and clinical study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the sleep hormone melatonin impairs insulin secretion in people with a common gene...
Multiple outlets reported that about 150 scientists met at Harvard University Medical School on Tuesday to discuss creating a synthetic human genome using chemicals to manufacture...
Mount St Helens appears to be in the very early stages of preparing for another eruption. There have been more than 130 earthquakes detected near the mountain...
Sarthak Dasadia, a physics doctoral student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, recently identified a massive shock wave emanating from a merging galaxy cluster known...
After sequencing the mitochondrial genome of the Hispaniolan solenodon, scientists confirmed that the endangered venomous mammal diverged from all other living mammals some 78 million years...
A new study sheds light on the genetic composition of early modern humans, who arrived in Europe about 45,000 years ago and lived for millennia alongside...
An international team of scientists said Monday they had discovered a trio of Earth-like planets that are the best bet so far for finding life outside...