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Credit: @Montse Lopez New breakthrough opens doors to treat melanin-linked skin conditions Spots resulting from too much sun exposure and...

Vasoconstriction must be balanced with vasodilation, particularly in the arterioles that supply tissues with blood. Endothelial cells protrude through holes...

Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, 4 July 2017 - Including investigators from all three medical schools in Singapore, as well...

Credit: Muller et al., Malaria Journal, 2017' Removing the flowers of an invasive shrub from mosquito-prone areas might be a...

New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows how a policy aimed at ensuring the world's protected...

Credit: Dr Nick Pullen You might think that plants grow according to how much nutrition, water and sunlight they are...

The sand rat Psammomys obesus is a gerbil species native to deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, and...

Credit: Goldbogen Lab, Hopkins Marine Station Humpback whales feed from a range of species that have adapted to escape their...

Never mind counting aces and killer shots. If you want to predict the outcome of a tennis match, pay attention...

Credit: Ms Pernille V Troelsen When dinosaurs ruled the land, plesiosaurs ruled the oceans. Famous for their incredibly long necks...

The common and highly resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium is a fatal threat to weakened and ill patients. A new study...

Credit: Dr Per Hedenström Bats catch food 'on the wing' without touching the ground, but how do they do it?...

COLOGNE. For most patients in intensive care, the patient records contain neither an advance directive nor a medical power of...

Credit: Mr Itaru Takaku. Ribbon halfbeak are a species of fish with the ability to fly above the sea surface...

Credit: Dr James Morris Over 7 million tonnes of mollusc shells are discarded by the seafood industry each year as...

Credit: IDIBELL A translational, multicenter study carried out by research groups of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), San Juan...

Large-scale changes to the structure of the genome are often seen in cancer cells. Scientists at the Babraham Institute in...

Ensuring that would-be carpoolers are riding with people they actually like could potentially decrease car use by nearly 60 per...

Credit: Ali Yadollahpour et al., Bentham Science Publishers Radiotherapy is an important method in treatment of tumors, but it can...

A consortium of scientists from Ingenza Ltd (Edinburgh), the National Physical Laboratory (NPL, London) and the University of Plymouth has...