Researchers have created a new open-access database of information on drug candidates and how they are metabolized by the body, which could help speed up the repurposing of old drugs as new treatments ...

Fossils are windows to the past. Whether they formed from the bones of ferocious dinosaurs or their less-impressive waste products, they provide essential information about the world millions of years ...

A research team led by scientists at UC San Francisco has developed a computational method to systematically probe massive amounts of open-access data to discover new ways to use drugs, including some ...

Graphical abstract portraying the development of the LitChemPlast database. About this study: Plastics contain a vast number of chemicals, some of which greatly impact the environment and human health ...

The genome database will power ongoing scientific efforts worldwide and help advance individualized pet health care Insights from this partnership will feed into the MARS PETCARE BIOBANK™, a ...

If you have searched the Dag Hammarskjöld Library catalogue recently, you may have noticed a new feature: the addition of pink PDFs in your results list which link to the full text of open access ...

Each election cycle, thousands of candidates vie for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Until now, there has been no comprehensive, publicly available resource cataloging what ...

After writing a column searching for Linux alternatives to Microsoft’s low-end database, Access, I received some great replies. Many readers pointed out the limitations of Microsoft Access, and while ...

Big companies are warming up to open-source database software, according to a new study. The open-source database MySQL grew rapidly in popularity over the last year, according to results from a ...