Biology

Credit: ETH Zurich / Scott Jackson, Ioannis Manolaridis, Kaspar Locher Almost all living creatures have evolved mechanisms to remove toxins...

Credit: SFU A new study by Simon Fraser University biologists Dan Greenberg and Arne Mooers offers clues to why more...

Credit: University of Southern Denmark For the first time, researchers have shown that a marine birds can hear under water....

Scientists are seeking to develop chickpeas that can flourish in dry climates, to help some of the world's poorest farmers...

Credit: Ross Maynard In the Neotropics, there is a whole group of so-called glassfrogs that amaze with their transparent skin...

Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto & San Diego -- Is a warmer Arctic a canary of global warming? Since the 1970s...

Credit: United European Gastroenterology A new study highlights that children suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are not meeting the...

Credit: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory AUSTIN, Texas - Scientists have known that microbes living in the ground can...

Credit: Riikka Linnakoski New research on projected climate changes from the University of Helsinki indicates that climate change has an...

Copenhagen, Denmark: New genomic tools are enabling researchers to overturn long-held beliefs about the origins of populations, a researcher will...

Copenhagen, Denmark: Urinary incontinence in women is common, with almost 50% of adult women experiencing leakage at least occasionally. Genetic...

Copenhagen, Denmark: Higher than normal body mass index (BMI) is known to lead to cardiovascular ill-health in mid-to-late life, but...

Ashkenazi Jewish women are known to have a predisposition to the inherited breast cancers BRCA1 and BRCA2, but currently genetic...

There are significant gaps in our knowledge on the evolution of sex, according to a research review on sex chromosomes...

New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) reveals that residents of the Mid-Ohio River Valley (from Evansville, Indiana, north...

A study of dog DNA has revealed a genetic mutation linked to flat face shapes such as those seen in...

Credit: Santorio's marginal note to col. 406C-D, in Santorio Santori, Commentaria In Primam Fen Primi Libri Canonis Avicennae (Venice, 1625),...

About 40-70% of the infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus strains are due to methicillin resistant ones. These isolates are usually...

Credit: Tsuda et al., 2017 Researchers in Japan have identified a receptor protein on the surface of heart cells that...

Plant scientists at the University of Cambridge have found a plant protein indispensable for communication early in the formation of...