Biology

Researchers at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, with colleagues from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Fox Chase Cancer Center, have determined that a specific region of the small bowel, ca..

Credit: Dr S Prasanth Narayanan The Western Ghats mountains lie at the southwestern continental margin of Peninsular India and extend all the way from Gujarat to Kerala. The massif has earned its p..

An average daily intake level was determined for an initial preliminary estimation. As the estimation of the risk to consumers was made on the basis of the available data with a number of very conserv..

Francis Collins, Director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Harold Varmus, former Director of the NIH and of the National Cancer Institute, will discuss the importance of internationa..

Credit: Jordi Bernués, IRB Barcelona. Scientists headed by Ferran Azorín, CSIC research professor and head of the Chromatin Structure and Function group at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine..

Credit: University of Warwick Patients at risk of heart attacks and strokes may be spotted earlier thanks to a diagnosis tool that uses near-infrared light to identify high-risk arterial plaques, ac..

Credit: Takayuki Suzuki Nagoya, Japan - In the evolution of tetrapods, the position of the hindlimb has diversified along with the vertebral formula, which is the number of small bones forming the ..

Credit: © IDM Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is becoming more and more common. Approximately every third adult in the industrialized countries has a morbidly fatty liver. This not only increases ..

Eggs are used to produce a large number of foods. The proportion varies among the different foods. Generally, a dilution of the fipronil concentration can be assumed for foods produced with the additi..

Regular exercise is considered an important form of treatment for heart failure, a condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs. The benefits of exercise..

Credit: Source: AG Meisinger Mitochondria are the cell's power stations; they transform the energy stored in nutrients so that cells can use it. If this function is disturbed, many different d..

Credit: Youcef Shahali / Colorization Jean-Marc Panaud, Institut Pasteur Working in collaboration with teams from the Czech Republic and Japan, researchers from the Institut Pasteur, Assistance Pub..

Credit: Florida Museum of Natural History photo by Verity Mathis GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Brazilian free-tailed bats are expert flyers, capable of migrating hundreds of miles and regularly traveling mor..

Credit: University of Notre Dame/Barbara Johnson Chemical engineers at the University of Notre Dame have discovered a catalytic process that could help curb emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from d..