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Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS — Male live-bearing fish are evolving faster than female fish, according to a Kansas...
Why KID Syndrome patients experience different sets of symptoms
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Peruvian potatoes to join world’s largest banana collection in…
Credit: © Bioversity International For 30 years, KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium) has been home to an impressive collection...
Electronic depositary of living systems created
Credit: Piotr Kamenski An information system created within the framework of the "Noah's ark" project has started working at the...
‘Self-sabotage’ prevents immune protection against malaria
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Parkinson’s disease: A new tool aims to improve diagnosis and advance treatment
This news release is available in French and French. Montreal, Nov. 13 2015 – A group of experts working under...
Fruit discovery could provide new treatments for obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease
A combination of two compounds found in red grapes and oranges could be used to improve the health of people...
Asiagomphus reinhardti: A newly discovered insect is named after a TU…
The Russian insect researcher Oleg Kosterin and his Japanese colleague Naoto Yokoi have traced the dragonfly in a remote mountainous...
Overcome strength-training plateau with accentuated eccentric loading
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Cells in fish’s spinal discs repair themselves
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Scientists win UN data prize for monitoring threats to South African…
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Young, gifted, first-generation minority science students motivated by prosocial values
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Scientists develop protein with potential to modify brain function, memory in mice and fish
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Research reveals how PSD forms and why defects can cause autism
All neurons in our brain are wired via a micron-sized connection unit called synapse, and each synapse contains a layer...
Uncovering the power of glial cells
Credit: TDY Kozai/BionicLab.ORG PITTSBURGH (January 8, 2018) … Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere...
OU study demonstrates seasonality of bird migration in response to…
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma study demonstrates for the first time that remote sensing data from weather...
Ancient fossil microorganisms indicate that life in the universe is common
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Skin cells ‘crawl’ together to heal wounds treated with unique hydrogel layer
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Paleontologists find North America’s oldest monkey fossil along…
AMES, Iowa – It was late in the year, but Panama was still muggy and rain clouds were closing in....
Scientists reveal new and improved genome sequence of Daphnia pulex
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