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Credit: UC San Diego Health Pancreatic beta cells help maintain normal blood glucose levels by producing the hormone insulin —...

Credit: Photo provided by the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — One of the most common myths around...

University of Adelaide researchers are rethinking plant breeding strategies to improve the development of new high-yielding, stress-tolerant cereal varieties. In...

WASHINGTON (March 3, 2016) — It's a common paradox. Why is it that some people fear using cellphones believing radiation...

Amsterdam, March 29, 2016 – Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, today announced...

Credit: drawing by Nicola Heath How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing...

Credit: Image courtesy of Karteek Kadimisetty and the journal ACS Sensors. Copyright 2017 American Chemical Society. A study by chemists...

Credit: Anant Madabhushhi A deep-learning computer network developed through research led by Case Western Reserve University was 100 percent accurate...

Credit: New York World, 1899 What would you wear to your own execution? It's a moot question in the United...

Credit: Queen's University Belfast A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has discovered a way to convert dirty aluminium foil into...

Credit: University of Edinburgh More than one thousand people have had their entire genetic make-up decoded as part of a...

Researchers at Wihuri Research Institute and University of Helsinki, Finland, in collaboration with scientists from Vanderbilt and Groningen Universities used...

IMAGE: A "hedgehog " structure in dental plaque, collected from a healthy volunteer using a toothpick. Corynebacteria, shown in magenta,...

Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON — Emergency physicians in Michigan propose a new health care delivery model for...

Credit: Bernhard Sabel Magdeburg, Germany, December 14, 2016 – Becoming blind changes a person's life on a fundamental level. Because...

IMAGE: Cravings for sweet foods are common, yet the mechanisms that influence the ''sweet tooth'' are not well-defined. This visual...

Credit: Alina Konovalenko Skeletons and shells first came into being 550 million years ago as the chemical make-up of seawater...

Scientists from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have successfully inhibited the growth of colon tumors in mice with mismatch...

Credit: Image by Roblan/Shutterstock, Szasz-Fabian Jozsef/Shutterstock Tsukuba, Japan – Germline cells are the only cells that develop into eggs or...

Credit: IOZ Conventional thinking holds that current climate warming will increase the prevalence and transmission of disease. However, a recent...