ANN ARBOR--Sometimes it pays to be unpredictable. A new study shows that when bipedal desert rodents called jerboas are being ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, Northeastern University Professor Jennifer Bowen and University of Rhode Island Professor Laura Meyerson ...

Insects have much better vision and can see in far greater detail than previously thought, a new study from the ...

The presence of the bacterium Kingella kingae in children's throats was strongly linked to bone and joint infection with the ...

1. Re-analysis of evidence suggests that PSA screening significantly reduces the risk for death from prostate cancer Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M16-2586 Editorial: ...

Johns Hopkins scientists say they have developed a blood test that spots tumor-specific DNA and protein biomarkers for early-stage pancreatic ...

LUGANO-MADRID, 04 September, 2017 - European women with ovarian cancer can safely stick to the standard three-week dosing schedule for ...

Scientists are honing in on a potential treatment for osteoporosis, after performing the largest ever genetic study of the common ...

Credit: Joan de la Malla Some of the areas hosting most of the world's biodiversity are those inhabited by indigenous ...

Credit: MIPT Press Office A U.S.-based team of researchers featuring MIPT scientists has assembled a nanoscale biological structure capable of ...

Credit: Immanuel Wagner/imma.tv Nuclear pore complexes are tiny channels where the exchange of substances between the cell nucleus and the ...

Credit: NIBB In many areas, the environment fluctuates greatly depending on the season, and animals living in those areas must ...

The project "Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly" is being conducted at the initiative of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) ...

New insight into sleeping sickness suggests communication between parasites that cause infection could affect the severity and spread of the ...

What risks threaten the entire future of humanity within the next hundred years? And what should we do to protect ...

Credit: Dr. Lee Brown, University of Leeds Researchers have warned of an 'urgent worldwide need' to address a broad spectrum ...

Credit: Stadtarchäologie Augsburg At the end of the Stone Age and in the early Bronze Age, families were established in ...

Credit: Steinmetz et al., eNeuro (2017) Multiple laboratories have observed unusual neural activity resembling epilepsy in some lines of genetically ...

Credit: Jeffrey Zaremba/Losonczy Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- A team of Columbia scientists has found that disruptions to the ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have identified two independent pathways in the fly brain that are ...