Biology

Credit: Tohoku University Osaka – Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, with up to 10 million...

With millions of motorists set to hit the road for the bank holiday weekend, drivers have been urged to close...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — If two clinicians observe the same patient with blepharospasm — uncontrollable muscle contractions around...

PHILADELPHIA – Researchers are getting closer to learning how to turn white fat cells into brown fat cells, in a...

Credit: University of Helsinki. The early evolution of snakes happened from surface-terrestrial to burrowing in the lizard-snake transition suggests a...

Credit: University of Houston The symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (known as SLE or lupus) can fool you. You might...

Credit: NIPS/NINS Researchers centered at Japan's National Institute for Physiological Sciences reveal details of the structure of compacted DNA transiently...

Credit: Zach Veilleux/The Rockefeller University Some microbes can form memories–although, inconveniently for scientists who study the process, they don't do...

Credit: World Scientific Although infinitely diverse and complex in their details, sedimentary coasts nevertheless share many morphological features, which often...

Credit: Richard Wrangham MADISON, Wis. — In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to...

Credit: (Photo by George Poinar, courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered...

Credit: Photo by Roy Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley DURHAM, N.C. — To a mantis shrimp, walking away from a...

Credit: CREDIT: ©Charlotte Spira/WCS. KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (May 26, 2017) – A new study by WCS (Wildlife Conservation...

(Edmonton, AB) Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta has identified the structure of the infectious prion protein, the cause...