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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a huge problem all over the world: For example, 25 -- 50 per cent of the inhabitants in southern Europe are resistant to staphylococci .

Hour after hour, Brian Dunn lofted his fly line into the turquoise-blue water of this shimmering desert lake north of Reno.

Their advocates say they are a store of knowledge, which could help tackle many global problems and offer a chance to live in a timeframe not bound by instant messaging, but across the world many botanical gardens are having to face challenges, often related to funding.

An international team of scientists using a new X-ray method recorded the internal structure and cell movement inside a living frog embryo in greater detail than ever before.

If you're worried about your chances of developing breast cancer, this doesn't mean you have to go under the knife like actress Angelina Jolie.

After using her hands to serve others throughout her four years at Rome High School , Juhi Varshney has decided to let service dictate her years to come.

Allergies to tree pollen are in full bloom in the Midwest-and when spring allergy season begins, it comes on fast, according to local allergists.

With obesity reaching epidemic levels in some parts of the world, scientists have only begun to understand why it is such a persistent condition.

Young scientists from North and South High Schools took awards at the WAC Lighting Foundation Invitational Science Fair.

The ground-breaking underwater marine biology lectures were the first of their kind, adding to the teaching, educational and learning experience during dives on tropical coral reef systems.

Catalytic centre in Atg3. In the absence of Atg12-Atg5, a catalytic Cys234 is oriented away from Thr213 which is essential for Atg3 activity.

A significant, and undoubtedly controversial, milestone in stem cell therapy was reached yesterday.

Experts on the topic of antibacterials and manufacturers of antibacterial soaps are showcasing the latest methods for demonstrating the effectiveness of antibacterial hand soaps and sanitizers in killing disease-causing germs.

These minuscule sculptures, curved and delicate, don't resemble the cubic or jagged forms normally associated with crystals, though that's what they are.

Earlier this week the actress revealed that she underwent a preventative double mastectomy after she tested positive for a gene that indicates an increased risk for breast and ovarian cancer.

Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn out to be genius in their own right, helping to illuminate some underlying mystery or impacting the way an entire field thinks.

An experimental drug that taps the power of the body's immune system to fight cancer is shrinking tumors in patients for whom other treatments have failed, an early study shows.

A new landmark stem cell technique in therapeutic cloning opens new horizons in treating rare diseases and disorders caused by gene mutations.

From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA ; the Center for Population Studies and the Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD ; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences , Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology , and Graduate School of ... (more)

The finding could provide a niche for developing antimalarial drugs and vaccines that prevent or treat the disease by cutting these communication networks.