Credit: James Nieh Over the past decade, Asian hornets, predatory insects with a widespread and expanding population, have invaded parts ...

Credit: Gonçalo Bernardes Lab, iMM Lisboa A team of researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa successfully used a ...

(University of Bonn) The Arctic is often in the headlines: starving polar bears on melting ice, the reckless hunt for ...

Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz Biofuels obtained from biomass are becoming increasingly important. Apart from biomethane, however, they cannot ...

Scientific research at the ULB Center for Diabetes Research and the Erasmus Hospital of the ULB leads to the identification ...

Credit: Dr. Bimal Banik et al., Bentham Science Publishers Indoloquinoline alkaloids have received significant popularity because of their antimalarial and ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- Oct. 12, 2017 -- Although proteins have very different function functions, or specialties, in living cells, they ...

Credit: University of Alberta Recent research discoveries in the development of brain disorders could pave the way to new therapies ...

Credit: Lilian Hsiao New research from North Carolina State University, MIT and the University of Michigan finds that the surface ...

Johns Hopkins University scientists are part of a research team assessing how a person's genetic profile affects his body. The ...

Using a modified version of the CRISPR genome-editing system, MIT researchers have developed a new way to screen for genes ...

Credit: Colleen Gino The recent intense hurricanes in the Atlantic have sharply focused attention on how climate change can exacerbate ...

Credit: Turner et al./Cell 2017 Autism has genetic roots, but most cases can't be explained by current genetic tests. Now, ...

Credit: Luke Mahler EAST LANSING, Mich. - While many animals try to avoid sticky situations, lizards evolved to seek them ...

Credit: Mike Morse/Northeastern University Fifteen years ago, a class of proteins was discovered, which give humans innate immunity to HIV-1. ...

(American Geophysical Union) Combination of El Niño and 2016 Ecuador earthquake likely worsened Zika outbreak

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Credit: Changxi Yang, Tsinghua University WASHINGTON -- The exciting applications of wearable sensors have sparked a tremendous amount of research ...

A pregnant mother sleeping on her back during late pregnancy may cause problems for the fetus, according to new research ...

The virulence of pathogens is considered an important health care problem due to their resistance against conventional antibiotics. The recent ...