Researchers analyzing routine urine samples have stumbled onto a previously unrecognized group of industrial chemicals that appear to be coursing through human bodies with no clear oversight or ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers discovered a class of compounds that can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a drug-resistant bacterium that causes more than 10,000 ...

Scientists at UC Davis created a new class of serotonin-targeting molecules using a light-driven chemical method. UC Davis scientists have created a light-based technique that converts amino acids — t ...

Half a million Americans are diagnosed each year with heart failure, a progressively debilitating condition characterized by the heart's declining ability to pump blood efficiently. The condition ...

In the early 2000s, researchers tested breast milk samples from U.S. mothers and found high levels of toxic compounds used as a common flame retardant in household items. The compounds, polybrominated ...

Millions of people die every year from antibiotic-resistant infections or from the complications of those infections, and the problem is only expected to get worse as pathogenic bacteria continue to ...

Antibiotic resistance is among the biggest global threats to human health. It was directly responsible for an estimated 1.27 million deaths in 2019 and contributed to nearly five million more. The ...