An analysis of submissions of manuscripts and peer review reports at two journals suggests that a significant number of researchers around the world continue...

The Chinese Academy of Engineering has launched an investigation into prominent Chinese immunologist Xuetao Cao, the president of Nankai University in Tianji...

The number of people with food allergies has risen sharply in the last few decades, especially in Western nations. Around 8% of American children now have a ...

In 1985, Oxford University diabetes researcher David Matthews published a study in the journal Diabetologia about a computerised mathematical model that coul...

Finding treatments for Alzheimer’s disease is simultaneously one of the most pressing and difficult tasks in medicine today. Between 2000 and 2015, the numbe...

A journal has decided to retract a 2016 study because of concerns that its data on the safety of liver transplantation involved organs sourced from executed ...

Worldwide, there has been a push to digitalise medical records to make patients active participants in their treatments. A new app, SikL, has been designed t...

Diabetes patients often have to inject themselves with needles several times a day to check their blood glucose levels. But, a new temporary tattoo, which ha...

Science has often been criticised for seeming 'alien' from the outside. There have been many initiatives to bring science closer to people and to get the pub...

Scientists have designed an oral tablet-like substance that could be a possible treatment for snakebites in the future. The full news story was published on ...