Biology

Nanoparticles show great promise as diagnostic tools and drug delivery agents. The tiny particles, which scientists can modify with drugs,...

When jewelers create a necklace, they control the order and number of each bead or jewel they use to form...

Since the development of insulin to manage diabetes, pharmacists have longed to create an insulin pill. Past attempts have failed...

Credit: Osaka University Cancer tissue cells are divided into two major groups: cancer cells and cancer stem cells (CSCs). CSCs...

Credit: Dan Miller, The University of Toledo Blue light from digital devices and the sun transforms vital molecules in the...

Just half a degree Celsius could make a major difference when it comes to global warming, according to a new...

A clinical study called the GutHeart Trial is poised to examine the potential relationship between the bacterial composition of the...

A new Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining study has found that using ethanol from corncobs for energy production may help reduce...

Hormones designed in the lab through a technique combining chemistry, biology, and engineering might be used to manipulate plant growth...

Credit: Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, TX (August 8, 2018) - A new study at Texas Biomedical Research Institute...

Credit: Elder C. Mattos Some relationships can be complicated. Take the one between sweet potato crops and soil nitrogen, for...

Credit: Federal Laboratory Consortium Idaho National Laboratory has been honored with two Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Awards in 2018 in...

Virtually all functions in our bodies require precise interactions between radically different types of molecules. The vast majority of the...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The compounds behind the perfumes and colognes you enjoy have been eliciting olfactory excitement since dinosaurs walked...

PHILADELPHIA--Jorge Henao-Mejia, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the...

Credit: University of Sheffield Periwinkles, struggling to survive the seashore battleground, have developed a genetic 'toolkit' to help them adapt...

Credit: Chelsea Hofmeier photos Bird communities in the Mojave Desert straddling the California/Nevada border have collapsed over the past 100...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Beautiful things can happen when plants surround themselves with the right microbes. A study...

Credit: NASA image courtesy of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. Caption by...

NASA's Aqua satellite captured the image of the fires and smoke blowing from them on August 06, 2018 with the...