Swedish children who live in homes with vinyl floors are more likely to have autism, according to a new study, but what’s behind the link is unclear. Children who live in homes with vinyl floors, which can emit chemicals called phthalates, are more likely…

One of the greatest hopes in the medical research community is that tissues will one day be grown and implanted into the human body to replace aging or defective tissues and organs. Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory…

Barbas and his team developed a two-stage chemical strategy that first puts the body’s antibodies on alert, and then gives them instructions on which targets to destroy. In the first stage, Barbas designed a chemical that, once injected, enables antibodies to form covalent bonds.…