This January marked the 10-year anniversary since the banning of commercial solarium beds across Australia. Despite this ban, ...

Nearly every disease has an inflammatory component, but blood tests can't pinpoint inflammation in specific organs or tissues ...

As part of The Wistar Institute's Melanoma Research Center, the Villanueva lab pursues new ways to overcome the challenge of melanoma drug resistance. In this paper, the group took aim at melanomas ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

The lab of The Wistar Institute's Jessie Villanueva, Ph.D., has identified a new strategy for attacking treatment-resistant melanoma: inhibiting the gene S6K2. .

Sunburn has traditionally been attributed to UV-induced DNA damage, but it turns out that this is not the full truth.

A sun rash is an immune system reaction to sunlight exposure that causes itchy bumps, raised patches, or blisters on your skin. Here’s why and how to find relief.

What's new in proton therapy? Read the latest news and views from Fred Hutch's proton therapy facility’s patients and ...

In 1985, three British scientists published a paper in the journal Nature that revealed there was a large hole in the ozone ...

If you think the Australian summer sun feels harsher than a summer in the Northern Hemisphere, you're not wrong. But why that's the case may surprise you.

By studying the Sun’s acoustic waves, scientists are uncovering its hidden dynamics, refining stellar models, and influencing ...