Biomedical ‘skin-like bandage’ is stretchy, durable and long lasting

Another species of Varroa mite threatens European honeybees

A sister species of the Varroa destructor mite is developing the ability to parasitize European honeybees, threatening pollinators already hard…

UIC researchers discover way to inhibit major cancer gene

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a new way to block the action of genetic mutations…

Studies examine racial bias in pollution, devaluation of black communities

Present-day racial biases may contribute to the pollution and devaluation of lower- and middle-class black communities, according to new research…

Here’s how young people decide when they’re drunk “enough,” according to math

Young people decide whether they’ve had enough to drink the same way the cruise control on a car “decides” whether…

New evidence that politics, not economics, drives inequality

One of the biggest surprises about rising income inequality in the United States may be that economic factors aren’t the…

Genome engineering paves way for sickle cell cure

Scientists enhance ability of antibiotics to defeat resistant types of bacteria using molecules called PPMOs

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a strategy to overcome a key defense that drug-resistant bacteria use to…