One of the most important gerontological data sets has been opened to the research community. The data of the Berlin Aging ...

For decades, researchers have focused on the problem of overgrazing, in which expanding herds of cattle and other livestock ...

A new study shows human immune systems differ across populations, raising new questions for medicine and global drug research ...

Pregnant women should never consume alcohol because of the high risks to their babies and themselves. According to the ...

Twenty years on since the approval of the first human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, a raft of studies involving millions of people have reached the same conclusion: HPV vaccination is safe and ...

New CDC childhood vaccination guidelines reduce the number of primarily targeted diseases from 16 to what the Department of ...

How much does it matter where you are born, or whether you are heavy or light, if you are a house sparrow? Researcher Kenneth ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

A Viewpoint published in Genomic Psychiatry by Dr. Mayana Zatz and colleagues at the Human Genome and Stem Cell Research ...

Known for their elusive nature and mythic proportions, tarpon never fail to entice anglers looking for a challenge. They're ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...