For The Better

A multicenter study has identified a potential new treatment for acute heart failure, a leading cause of hospitalization and death.

Life can be tough for young red squirrels living in the Canada’s Yukon territory, where frigid winters, food scarcity and predators threaten their long-term survival. Scientists want to know what factors might protect young squirrels, especially as the…

A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that causes mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s patients resulting in a reduction of the supply of energy to the brain.

Many surgeons remove the bursa when repairing rotator cuff injuries, but a new animal study suggests that the small tissue helps with healing.

Different types of barley recruit distinct communities of soil microbes to grow around their roots by releasing a custom mix of sugars and other compounds, according to a new study.

Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study. Projections show climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by the mid-21st century.

The results suggest that internal — not external — factors are the primary drivers of variation in the types of carbon yeasts can eat, and the researchers found no evidence that metabolic versatility, or the ability to eat different foods, comes with…

Researchers have found that vitamin D encourages the growth of a type of gut bacteria in mice which improves immunity to cancer.