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The social environment is an influential factor with regards to drug addiction. However, some people living in the same environment become drug users, whilst others resist. Is this difference just random or are there key personality traits that help people to avoid drug addiction?

A five-year-old boy is the first confirmed case of Ebola in Uganda, linked to the ongoing epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Women get autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, eight times more than men do. On the other hand, women have a smaller risk of getting non-reproductive cancers, so why the big sex difference?

We’ve all heard about bacteria that are becoming resistant to multiple types of antibiotics. The plant analogue may just be waterhemp, a common weed of corn and soy crops with resistance to multiple common herbicides, waterhemp is getting much harder to kill.

Alcohol use is one of the biggest risk factors for social and physical harm. Exposure to alcohol starts from an early age. A new study has found that children whose parents had less restrictive attitudes towards their child's alcohol use were more likely to start drinking alcohol than their peers. They also drank - and got drunk - more frequently.

Chemists from the University of Basel have built a rich collection of natural product-like macrocycles that can be mined for new medicines as the researchers.

Surgery is the only way to stop seizures in 30 per cent of patients with focal drug-resistant epilepsy. A new study finds that inducing seizures before surgery may be a convenient and cost-effective way to determine the brain region where seizures are coming from.

Fibrinogen is a well-known protein essential for wound healing and blood clotting. However, a study published in Scientific Reports shows it is actually a "double-edged sword" and inhibits an enzyme key for organ development and repair.

Signals between our gut and brain control how and when we eat food. But how these mechanisms are affected when we eat a high-energy diet and how they contribute to obesity are not well understood. Using a mouse model researchers have found that overactive endocannabinoid signaling in the gut drives overeating in diet-induced obesity by blocking gut-brain satiation signaling.

Nature provides many of the key chemical compounds needed in an endless number of pharmaceuticals. Now, a cutting-edge technique engineered by researchers at University of South Florida is changing the way scientists isolate these precious molecules.