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Scientists identify genes associated with mouth ulcers A large breakthrough has been made in the genetic understanding of mouth ulcers ...

Small brains, big picture: Study unveils C. elegans’ microscopic mysteries

Researchers discover how brain cells in the microscopic worm, C. elegans send electrical signalsCredit: OIST It's the small pieces that ...

University of Utah biologists experimentally trigger adaptive radiation

Preening drives divergent camouflage in feather lice on both micro- and macro-evolutionary timescalesCredit: Adapted from Bush et. al. 2019. Evo ...

Study: Climate change is leading to unpredictable ecosystem disruption for migratory birds

Ithaca, NY--Using data on 77 North American migratory bird species from the eBird citizen-science program, scientists at the Cornell ...

Why the brain can be blamed for children unknowingly being left to die in a hot car

TAMPA, Fla. (March 5, 2019)- More than 50 children died in hot cars in 2018, making it the deadliest year ...

Rethinking old-growth forests using lichens as an indicator of conservation value

Credit: Donna Crossland Ottawa, Mar. 5, 2019 - Two Canadian biologists are proposing a better way to assess the conservation ...

HPTN 071 demonstrates community-wide HIV prevention strategy can reduce new infections

Credit: HIV Prevention Trials Network DURHAM, NC - Researchers today presented results from the HPTN 071 (PopART) study at the ...

HIV prevention study finds universal ‘test and treat’ approach can reduce new infections

NIH-sponsored trial suggests home-based HIV testing and referral to care works at population levelCredit: Kim Cloete New HIV infections declined ...

TIGER mouse debuts as model for neurological ailments

Credit: David Feliciano / Victoria Neckles CLEMSON, South Carolina - New research published today in Scientific Reports has devised a ...

Kidney disease killer vulnerable to targeted nano therapy

CLEMSON, South Carolina -- By loading a chelation drug into a nano-sized homing device, researchers at Clemson University have reversed ...

Do all networks obey the scale-free law? Maybe not

As Benjamin Franklin once joked, death and taxes are universal. Scale-free networks may not be, at least according to a ...

Should patients be considered consumers?

There is broad support for building health care systems that are patient centered, seen as a means of improving health ...

Bundle payment model analysis of emerging breast cancer screening

Bundled payments have been touted as mechanisms to optimize quality and costs. A prior feasibility study evaluating bundled payments for ...

UN declares decade of ecosystem restoration

Declaration will 'shine a light on the human and financial resources needed to implement restoration globally.'Credit: Julie Chenot The United ...

Are mosaic embryos the ‘dark horse’ of IVF?

Study in nonhuman primates gives new hope to people seeking infertility treatment; abnormal embryos can result in successful in vitro ...

A faster, more accurate way to monitor drought

Thermal stress measurements sound the alarm about drought conditions soonerCredit: Duke Univ. DURHAM, N.C. -- More than 2 billion people ...

Forecasting mosquitoes’ global spread

An international team gauges the coming threat of mosquito-borne diseasesCredit: Moritz Kraemer for Nature Microbiology; DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0376-y. Outbreaks of mosquito-borne ...

Researchers uncover new facets of HIV's 'arms race' with human defense system

Study could contribute to new therapies COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study reveals details about the evolutionary contest between HIV ...

Swimming microbes steer themselves into mathematical order

Credit: Video courtesy of Saverio Spagnolie MADISON, Wis. -- Freeing thousands of microorganisms to swim in random directions in an ...

Solving a sticky problem