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A new study published in the journal Nature Communications describes a breakthrough in research related to facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)....

Amsterdam and Heidelberg, 15 September 2017 - SourceData (sourcedata.embo.org), an open platform from EMBO, designed to make published scientific data...

Credit: Alex Ross (Millbrook, NY) In the US, recreational fishing generates over $25 billion annually. Each year, 30 million people...

Insects and plants have an important ancient defence mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their...

Credit: Scheme Lab Scheme Lab, a biotech startup incubated at the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology (CIETEC), in São...

Credit: Michelle Lampe/Wolf Science Center A good example of the connection between cause and effect, is that an object which...

Credit: University of Toronto Mississauga The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable,...

These are the findings of a representative study recently conducted by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) on...

The proteins in human cells are extensively decorated with different types of sugars, a phenomenon called glycosylation. These modifications greatly...

SILVERTHORNE, CO - September 15, 2017 - Keystone Symposia will convene its first conference on the important topic of "Maternal-Fetal...

Credit: City College of New York City College of New York biologist Shubha Govind and her research team have identified...

Credit: Joshua A. Lewis Popular portrayals of "nature reclaiming civilization" in flood-damaged New Orleans, Louisianna, neighborhoods romanticize an urban ecology...

New Orleans, LA - In collaboration with Novo Biosciences, Inc., LSU Health New Orleans Cardiovascular Center of Excellence will receive...

Credit: David Kust/Entomological Society of America Annapolis, MD; September 11, 2017--A much greater number of monarch butterflies perished in a...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 15, 2017) - A group of steroid hormones could provide...

About 13 years ago, Northeastern professor Jonathan Tilly, a reproductive biologist, made a discovery that challenged everything scientists thought they...

Obese women with large bellies may be at risk of developing a different subtype of breast cancer than those with...

The largest genomic profiling study ever conducted into a type of brain tumor known as glioma in children has identified...

WASHINGTON -- The Endocrine Society today announced it has selected 14 leaders in the endocrinology field as winners of its...

Leesburg, VA, Sept. 8, 2017 - Pregnancy-associated breast cancer, which is rare but often aggressive, was detected with MRI in...