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Growers who time their strawberries to bloom just after apples do, can reap a better harvest, according to new research.

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Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) has named John S. Oghalai, MD, FACS, the new chair of the Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, effective Aug. 1, 2017.

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New Dana-Farber study shows patients with platinum resistant ovarian cancer who wouldn’t be expected to respond to a PARP inhibitor had partial shrinkage of their tumor with the addition of a kinase inhibitor.

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More than a decade after the Ford Nuclear Reactor shut down for the last time, the building comes back to life today as the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory.

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Whitehead Institute scientists have identified a gene that could help clinicians discern which patients have aggressive forms of early stage breast cancer, which could prevent hundreds of thousands of women from undergoing unnecessary treatment and save millions of dollars.

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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has completed the first whole genome sequencing of cancer survivors and found that 12 percent of childhood cancer survivors carry mutations linked to an increased risk of cancer

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$7 million grant extends Autism Sequencing Consortium through 2022 to collect genetic data of more than 50,000 individuals

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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have been named to a new colorectal cancer dream team that was announced today at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Washington, D.C.

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The following Tulane University experts are available to discuss the Russian subway explosion in Saint Petersburg, the Senate vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, the Trump administration’s plan for tax reform as well as ongoing changes related to the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.

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More and more consumers are going online to rent clothing, particularly formal dresses. An Iowa State researcher says judging from online reviews, consumers are embracing the rental experience for prom, charity balls and other formal occasions.

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Dr. Marie Bleakley, a pediatric oncology physician-scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has received a 2017 Innovative Research Grant in immuno-oncology from Stand Up To Cancer.

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Sleep will be at a premium this weekend at Missouri University of Science and Technology as a computer science student group hosts a 24-hour artificial intelligence coding competition.

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University of Washington security researchers have shown that Google’s new tool that uses machine learning to automatically analyze and label video content can be deceived by inserting a photograph periodically into videos. After they inserted an image of a car into a video about animals, for instance, the system thought the video was about an Audi.

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New research suggests that some patients with head and neck cancers can benefit by continuing treatment with an immunotherapy drug after their tumors show signs of enlargement according to investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and other organizations.

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Now it's possible for anyone to see and share 3-D nanoscale imagery with a new open-source software platform developed by researchers at the University of Michigan, Cornell University and open-source software company Kitware Inc.

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“Urban Health: A Global Challenge" is a free satellite session on April 6, organized by Georgetown University, the International Society for Urban Health, and the New York Academy of Medicine. The session precedes the 2017 Annual CUGH Global Health Conference in Washington, DC.

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Traumatic brain injuries affect the body’s stress axis differently in female and male mice, according to research presented at the Endocrine Society’s 99th annual meeting, ENDO 2017, in Orlando, Fla. The results could help explain why women who experience blast injuries face a greater risk of developing mental health problems than men.

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Brain signals that should help tell us we are full after eating appear to be dulled in obese children, according to preliminary results of a new study being presented Monday at ENDO 2017, the Endocrine Society’s 99th annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.

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People with type 2 diabetes have poorer control over their blood glucose levels when they work the night shift compared with those who work in the daytime or are unemployed, a new study finds. The study results, to be presented Monday at the Endocrine Society’s 99th annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., showed that poor long-term glycemic, or blood sugar, control, was independent of what workers ate or any sleep problems they had.