Biology

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 27, 2017 -- Researchers compared the effects of three bone...

Credit: Horng D. Ou, Salk Institute. Sixty-four years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick described the now-iconic double helix structure...

Credit: UAB After learning that a small-molecule drug improves breathing in a mouse model of the neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome,...

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Why do some of us live longer than others? While the environment in which we live, including our socio-economic status...

WASHINGTON, D.C. July 27, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...

Credit: University of Basel, IPNA, C. Gerling Swiss farmers practiced various different methods of animal farming as early as 5,400...

Plants are among many eukaryotes that can "turn off" one or more of their genes by using a process called...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, July 27, 2017, Baltimore, Md., Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a Baltimore-based leader in artificial intelligence ("AI") for...

Hepatitis E gets little press compared to its better-known cousins A, B and C, but Stellenbosch University virologists say we...

Credit: Vittorio Boscaro and Patrick Keeling Relationships where two organisms depend on each other, known as symbiosis, evoke images of...

There's a 50-hectare forested plot in Panama where researchers with the Smithsonian have gathered highly detailed information about the species,...

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Exposure to air pollution early in a pregnancy could increase risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, according to...

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Every spring and fall, billions of birds migrate across the United States, largely unseen under...

Credit: Barron Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON -- (July 27, 2017) -- Carbon nanotubes immobilized in a tuft of quartz fiber...

Immigrants who came to the United States illegally as small children and who meet the requirements of the Development Relief...

Credit: Ghasideh Pourhashem/Rice University Biochar from recycled waste may both enhance crop growth and save health costs by helping clear...

(Van Andel Research Institute) The findings, published today in Cell, reveal for the first time components of a G protein-coupled...

Researchers have identified a new cell mechanism that could lead to a fundamental change in the diagnosis and treatment of...