How can six and half feet of DNA be folded into the tiny nucleus of a cell? Researchers funded by...

Adults in the UK who have poor sleep patterns are more likely to be overweight and obese and have poorer...

(Van Andel Research Institute) The findings, published today in Cell, reveal for the first time components of a G protein-coupled...

Immigrants who came to the United States illegally as small children and who meet the requirements of the Development Relief...

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Every spring and fall, billions of birds migrate across the United States, largely unseen under...

There's a 50-hectare forested plot in Panama where researchers with the Smithsonian have gathered highly detailed information about the species,...

Hepatitis E gets little press compared to its better-known cousins A, B and C, but Stellenbosch University virologists say we...

Plants are among many eukaryotes that can "turn off" one or more of their genes by using a process called...

Why do some of us live longer than others? While the environment in which we live, including our socio-economic status...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 27, 2017 -- Researchers compared the effects of three bone...

Credit: Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa It is a well-known fact that environmental factors such as soil texture and drainage determine to...

Credit: Credit: NIH/NIAID A new study suggests that T cells, which help the body's immune system recognize friend from foe,...

Credit: University of Tennessee, Knoxville KNOXVILLE--Do very-preterm or very-low-weight babies develop anxiety and mood disorders later in life? Julia Jaekel,...

A faculty member at the University of Texas at Arlington's College of Nursing and Health Innovation has received a $250,000...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Zebrafish deficient in vitamin E produce offspring beset by behavioral impairment and metabolic problems, new research at...

EUGENE, Ore. -- July 27, 2017 -- Computer simulations of electrical charges sent to retinal implants based on fractal geometry...

Credit: Carlo Condello, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today...

Exposure to air pollution early in a pregnancy could increase risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, according to...

Credit: Vittorio Boscaro and Patrick Keeling Relationships where two organisms depend on each other, known as symbiosis, evoke images of...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, July 27, 2017, Baltimore, Md., Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a Baltimore-based leader in artificial intelligence ("AI") for...