The arrival of spring is traditionally associated with allergies, but the crisp air brought on by autumn’s cooler weather doesn’t necessarily mean everyone can take a breath of relief.

Vampire bats are remarkable creatures that survive exclusively on blood, a diet rich in proteins but low in fats and sugars.

An experimental portable device might be able to detect lung cancer from a person's exhaled breath, researchers report.

Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore ...

So instead they rely on quickly metabolising the amino acids found in their blood meal. To test the hypothesis, scientists monitored vampire bats running on a special treadmill used for metabolic ...

A pair of biologists at the University of Toronto has found that vampire bats are able to burn amino acids as a fuel source ...

Canadian scientists built a custom treadmill to test whether wild vampire bat’s blood-only diet gave them enough energy to exercise Bats then ... process three times while scientists monitored how ...

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Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, surgeons graft arteries, fix structural defects or transplant entire hearts.

What Is a Phosphate Blood Test? A phosphate test measures the amount of phosphate in your blood. Phosphate is what you get when you combine the mineral phosphorus with oxygen. When you eat certain ...

also called a sedimentation rate test or sed rate test, measures how quickly red blood cells sink to the bottom of a test tube. A high rate of settlement indicates high levels of inflammation.