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Scientists studied families with synaesthesia, and describe genetic changes that might contribute to their differences in sensory experience.

DCell is a virtual model of Baker's Yeast that could provide a greater understanding of the way AI functions.

Best disease causes progressive loss of central vision and is currently incurable in humans. A new study which has reversed the effects in dogs using gene therapy may change that.

Researchers have published their analysis of the genetic differences they discovered in patients' primary breast cancers and their metastatic cancers. By understanding how breast cancer metastases evolve, researchers hope to better explain how they occur. This insight could reveal new approaches in the treatment and prevention of metastatic breast cancer.

Cannabinoids have demonstrated potential as treatments for liver diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and fibrosis.

Most uses of neonicotinoid pesticides represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees, according to assessments published today by EFSA. The Authority has updated its risk assessments of three neonicotinoids – clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam – that are currently subject to restrictions in the EU because of the threat they pose to bees.

The dominance of high THC, low CBD cannabis strains indicates how criminalisation and a lack of regulation steer the black market.

Biochemists have made a discovery that sheds light on the molecular machinery that allows some cells, such as immune cells or even malignant cancer cells in humans, to wiggle their way through tissues like organs, skin or bones.

The process, which was developed and tested in the Netherlands under strict regulatory guidelines, involves the growing of selected cannabis plants at a cGMP facility followed by extraction of the cannabinoid molecules from cannabis flowers.

For the first time, a major scientific study has confirmed what cannabis advocates have known for decades: that cannabis can be a safe and effective palliative treatment in patients suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer.