Credit: Qing Wang, Penn State Firefighters entering burning buildings, athletes competing in the broiling sun and workers in foundries may...

Crystals are solid materials composed of microscopic building blocks arranged in highly ordered patterns. They have countless applications, ranging from...

Global concerns about Zika virus aren't stopping Americans from making international travel plans, a new study finds, but many who...

Credit: Plymouth University Dr Sylwia Ammoun, Senior Research Fellow at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, has received...

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Researchers have discovered that the protein Myb plays a vital role...

Credit: MBI Ribonucleic acid (RNA) plays a key role in biochemical processes which occur at the cellular level in a...

Credit: Kyoto University Japan — Mutations generate genetic variation, and are a major driving force of evolution. Therefore, examining mutation...

Credit: John Innes Centre A world-leading Norfolk plant scientist is today named as a 2018 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science...

AMHERST, Mass. – Green building expert Simi Hoque at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a five-year, $508,714 National...

Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Longden All it takes is the flip of a protein "switch" within the tiny wire-like capillaries...

Credit: Cleveland Zoo Whole genome sequencing (WGS), which is the process of determining an organism's complete DNA sequence, can be...

Credit: Sergiu Pasca, M.D., Stanford University National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded neuroscientists have created a 3D window into the human...

In the island chain called the Lesser Antilles, stretching from the Virgin Islands south to Trinidad and Tobago, a team...

Credit: TR Birkhead The shape of birds' eggs varies considerably, for reasons that are unclear. The peculiarly elongated and pointed...

BAR HARBOR, MAINE – The MDI Biological Laboratory will offer three lectures for the public on the science of aging...

T cell receptors are an important part of the human immune system. They are able to switch their conformation from...

Credit: UTA The University of Texas at Arlington is becoming a major cancer research institute, receiving more than $6 million...

Type 1 diabetes affects 30,000 individuals throughout Germany and is the most common metabolic disease in children and adolescents. To...

Credit: Source: Sonja-Verena Albers The biologist Dr. Tessa Quax has identified the structure of a central protein used by archaea...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 3, 2016) – Three new species of mouse lemurs – the smallest primates in the world –...