Biology

Credit: Image: Daumke lab, MDC Oliver Daumke's lab figures out how the inner membranes of mitochondria "get their groove" and...

URBANA, Ill. - Researchers at the University of Illinois have shown that a common strategy for reducing postweaning diarrhea in...

Researchers from Belgium led by Prof. Dirk Elewaut of the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research and the team of Prof....

Credit: Copyright UC Regents 2017 Using computed tomography (CT) to evaluate muscle health may help identify optimal treatments for older...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Stress affects the body and can trigger illness -- from psychiatric disorders to heart disease....

Credit: Elke Barbez/Gregor Mendel Institute LA JOLLA--(June 1, 2017) Once we start coloring our hair, we may be surprised to...

Credit: Hannes Lohi research group Researchers at the University of Helsinki have identified a novel gene defect that causes a...

Credit: Manuel Becerra Surprisingly, there are still plant species waiting to be discovered in the Iberian Peninsula. Some are detected...

The cultural differences between the United States and Norway are relatively small, but the cultures differ significantly from one another...

Credit: Tomoko Nishiyama Nagoya, Japan - A sister chromatid is one half of an identical pair of chromatids formed by...

Large-scale fisheries receive about four times more subsidies than their small-scale counterparts, with up to 60 per cent of those...

Credit: A. Raine The island of Kauai is home to two endangered seabirds, the Hawaiian Petrel and the Newell's Shearwater....

Orlando, FL (June 1, 2017) - Emerging human studies on mango consumption have found potential health benefits associated with the...

Experts, charities, the media and government confuse the public by speaking "different languages" on climate change, a new study says....

In the mammalian auditory system, sound waves impinging on the tympanic membrane of the ear are transduced into electrical signals...

Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In molecules there are certain groups of atoms that are able to rotate. This movement...

Credit: Courtesy of Jiaying Zhu. Stanford, CA--Plants are stationary. This means that the way they grow must be highly internally...

An international group of researchers has discovered that the most ancient dinosaurs' ancestors were quadrupedal. Andrey Sennikov, employee of the...

Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The next big idea to help people with cancer, heart disease, diabetes,...

Researchers at universities in Freiburg, Kiel and Berlin have discovered that the economic value of nature for a society is...