NEWS

The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce winners of the Biophysical Journal Outstanding Poster Awards given at the "Single-Cell Biophysics:...

Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) Photodynamic therapy is often used to treat brain tumors because...

Credit: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As farmers survey their fields this summer,...

The causes of falling sea levels in the Dead Sea, which have significant impacts on the environment and the economy,...

Is it OK for children to count on their fingers? Generations of pupils have been discouraged by their teachers from...

MADISON, Wisconsin - Ann Palmenberg and Rob Kalejta heard complaints at one too many virology conferences about the perceived lack...

The UK's world-leading robotics research will be showcased at the second UK Robotics Week, which begins on Saturday, 24 June,...

Credit: Prober laboratory Humans are diurnal animals, meaning that we usually sleep at night and are awake during the day,...

Credit: Horwitz Lab/UW Medicine Seattle UW Medicine researchers have developed a technique for inserting a gene into specific cell types...

Credit: © IDM Eating behavior and the subjective feeling of hunger are regulated by a variety of hormones. Here a...

Discovered more than two decades ago, the hormone leptin has been widely hailed as the key regulator of leanness. Yet,...

Plants adopt different strategies to survive the changing temperatures of their natural environments. This is most evident in temperate regions...

DURHAM, NC -- It's a classic conundrum: while rushing to get to an important meeting or appointment on time, you...

Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth HOUSTON - (June 23, 2017) ¬- Just as he has changed the lives of people suffering...

Credit: Rob McCauley Marine seismic surveys used in petroleum exploration could cause a two to three-fold increase in mortality of...

Most of the federally qualified health centers that participated in a program to help them adopt a "medical home" model...

Credit: Penn State University University Park, PA -- A new analysis shows that individuals with high levels of genetic variation...

Credit: Marthaler AM, et al. (2017) Scientists have identified a molecular pathway by which some types of human papilloma virus...

Credit: Megan Clark and Randy Carnell/UW Medicine Research results reported this week in the journal Science overturn long-held views on...

Investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles have developed and tested a new biomarker assay for...