Biology

Credit: Casey Holliday COLUMBIA, Mo. - The skulls of alligators protect their brains, eyes and sense organs while producing some...

WASHINGTON (June 16, 2017) -- Pulsed cavitation ultrasound can be used to remotely soften human degenerative calcified biosprosthetic valves and...

Washington, DC - June 16, 2017 - Canadian researchers have generated both novel and existing antibiotic resistance mechanisms on experimental...

Credit: Courtesy of Lu Hu MISSOULA - University of Montana scientists will fly straight into the smoke of western wildfires...

Professor Rajeshwar Dayal Tyagi of Centre Eau Terre Environnement at INRS received the Outstanding Scientist Award from the International Bioprocessing...

The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged...

Credit: the University of Nottingham Potential new ways of understanding the cause of cognitive impairments, such as problems with memory...

Credit: Matthias Stöck Until now, the fauna of the Himalayas was considered to be an "immigration fauna", with species that...

Credit: University of Pennsylvania One area of research within mechanobiology, the study of how physical forces influence biological processes, is...

Credit: Larry R. Noblick An incredible amount of information is contained in the very first few millimeters of the leaflet...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 15, 2017) The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that Eiman Azim, an assistant professor in...

PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today the 2017 class of Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences. Ten pioneering...

Credit: Oxford University Press From vaccinations to climate change, nuclear power to fracking, the weight of scientific evidence and the...

PHILADELPHIA--Today, The Pew Charitable Trusts announced 22 exceptional early-career researchers as Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences. Each scholar will...

Philadelphia, PA, June 15, 2017 - Consumer demand for organic milk recently surpassed the available supply, with sales of organic...

PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust announced today the 2017 class of Pew-Stewart Scholars for...

Researchers have identified properties in DNA's protective structure that could transform the way scientists think about the human genome. Molecules...

Chicago, June 15, 2017 - Patients who are at risk for malnutrition when undergoing heart surgery now can be more...

When a Xenopus frog is deeply wounded, its skin can regenerate without scarring. Researchers have found that cells under the...

The Cook&Chill process is a standard method used in institutional catering facilities, such as children's day care centres, schools, canteens...