Biology

Poor diet and a lack of physical activity are major contributors to the world's obesity epidemic, but researchers have also...

Credit: Jacob Hopkins | KU News Service LAWRENCE -- For most humans, fire symbolizes destruction and death. Yet nature often...

Hydraulic fracturing has enabled a domestic oil and gas boom in the U.S., but its rapid growth has raised questions...

For the past 15 years, synthetic biologists have been figuring out how to synthesize an organism's complete set of DNA,...

Credit: Jeremy Testa The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. Each year, low...

A fine wine has an ideal balance of ingredients. Too much or too little of a component could mean the...

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) DFG presents 2016 Annual Report /-- 'Best knowledge-driven research -- supported by broad political and public trust' --...

International experts on mercury will meet at the 13th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP 2017) in...

Credit: Brent et al., 2017 Researchers have identified a pheromone released by female insects after mating that tells males exactly...

Credit: Rachel Caspi and Anthony St. Leger Bugs in your eyes may be a good thing. Resident microbes living on...

Credit: CNIO The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) today announced its 2017 Young Investigator (YI) Awards, which support early career scientists...

Credit: Zheng-Xiong Xi and Lauren Brick Rats missing a neuroreceptor that controls the release of the neurotransmitter glutamate are less...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 11, 2017--A new study showed that the expression levels of...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, July 11, 2017 -- Chemists have found potential drugs and other really useful compounds...

Sure, you know how old you are, but what about your cells? Are they the same age? Are they older,...

Credit: Junfeng Feng Electric fields can be used to guide neural stem cells transplanted into the brain towards a specific...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- For years, the underlying process that causes a debilitating muscle disorder in infants and young children has...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Since 2015 artificially-intelligent systems surpassed human accuracy in many tasks including image recognition, voice recognition, autonomous driving...

Credit: AG Jacobs Bacteria of the species Staphylococcus aureus are among the most widespread and dangerous pathogens of our time....

Credit: NASA Just like early explorers, NASA Twins Study investigators are venturing into new territory. Conducting human omics research on...