Biology

Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Our genomes are minefields, studded with potentially damaging DNA sequences over which hundreds of thousands...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University materials scientists and bioelectrochemical engineers may have created an innovative, cost-competitive electrode material for cleaning...

Rochester Institute of Technology leads universities in New York with seven federally funded summer research programs for undergraduate students, according...

Credit: (Credit: Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research at Hebrew University) Stem cell research holds huge potential for...

Credit: courtesy photo MISSOULA - Slow-growing ponderosa pines may have a better chance of surviving mountain pine beetle outbreaks in...

Credit: Lauren A. Hayes Using five different scientific approaches, a team including University of Wyoming researchers has given considerable support...

Credit: Kai Tian, Karl Decker, Aleksei Aksimentiev, and Li-Qun Gu, University of Missouri, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign An important...

Credit: Photo by Andrea Starr/PNNL The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is part of a nationwide effort to...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has agreed to fund the Mainz-based Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1066 "Nanodimensional Polymer Therapeutics for...

Credit: Asaad et. al. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When you do something right, you can't learn anything from your success without...

Cancerous tumors are formidable enemies, recruiting blood vessels to aid their voracious growth, damaging nearby tissues, and deploying numerous strategies...

By comparing variations in protein expression in tumor samples from a single melanoma patient, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg~Kimmel...

Credit: University of Bristol Dr Thomas Gorochowski, from the University of Bristol's Bristol BioDesign Institute, has been awarded a prestigious...

The health effects of zinc and iron deficiencies can be devastating, particularly in developing countries. One strategy for addressing this...

The world needs high-speed climate action for an immediate bending-down of the global greenhouse-gas emissions curve, leading experts caution. Aggressive...

The U.S. banned PCBs nearly four decades ago, but they persist in the environment and have been found in animals...

Credit: Glen Hartman URBANA, Ill. - Midwestern growers don't worry much about soybean rust, but the fungal disease has been...

One of the greatest challenges facing artificial intelligence development is understanding the human brain and figuring out how to mimic...

Credit: Nader Pourmand Nader Pourmand, professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has...

Credit: Chris Martine A team of botanists from the US has named a new bush tomato species, based on collections...