Credit: Ismael Galvan Birds' feathers, or plumage, are some of the most strikingly variable animal characteristics that can be observed ...

A new five-year federal research grant totaling $3,322,009 to The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) will fund studies of a new mouse ...

Credit: Yu Liu, Penn State University A new technique for evaluating drug safety can detect stress on cells at earlier ...

Credit: Orlin Velev, NC State University Researchers at North Carolina State University and Duke University have developed a way to ...

Is extinction forever? Efforts are under way to use gene editing and other tools of biotechnology to "recreate" extinct species ...

As neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease progress, misfolded proteins clump together in neurons, recruiting normal proteins in ...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 4, 2017--In a forthcoming special issue of Tissue Engineering on ...

Rhesus macaques previously infected with dengue or yellow fever viruses appear to be neither more nor less susceptible to severe ...

Credit: Juliane Kuhl/Vetmeduni Vienna Seasonal and diurnal rhythms determine the life cycle of many animal species. In equids this is ...

Credit: HZB Nanoreactors are tiny systems which facilitate specific chemical reactions, as a catalyst does. Many are found in biological ...

Credit: Robert Ernst All living cells that grow and divide have a constant demand for producing new proteins and new ...

Credit: Rebeca Sola. UPV/EHU Hybrid materials are those that combine components of differing origins (organic and inorganic) in order to ...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Pulmonary fibrosis can possibly be attributed to a kind of ...

Credit: Thinkstock Researchers from the University's Institute of Translational Medicine have determined the most effective drug dose to help penguins ...

Should people who profit from the cultural representation of wildlife pay towards conservation? That is the question asked in new ...

Through a process called cell signaling, cells collaborate on necessary functions such as responding to changes in the environment, fighting ...

A chance discovery has opened up a new method of finding unknown viruses. In research published in the journal Virus ...

An often cited claim that humans, who are smarter and more technologically advanced than their ancestors, originated in response to ...

Credit: SFU Simon Fraser University graduate student Oldooz Pooyanfar is monitoring what more than 20,000 honeybees housed in hives in ...

A new Tel Aviv University study suggests that cultural activities, such as the use of language, influence our learning processes, ...