Biology

Credit: Will (Yangxiaolu) Cao, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University have turned bacteria into the builders of...

Credit: John A. Downing Looks can be deceiving. Look at a hundred lakes in the agricultural heartland of the United...

PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 9, 2017) -- Researchers at The Wistar Institute have uncovered new aspects of the three-dimensional organization of...

Key Takeaway: In 2008 New York City introduced a rule mandating calorie postings for chain restaurants that was intended to...

A neuroimaging study of two monkeys published in JNeurosci identifies a brain network that tracks the location of an object...

Credit: Copyright D. Johnson/VIMS. Just in time for Halloween, a new study reveals that pumpkin-colored zombies may be running rampant...

Credit: Courtesy of Ai et al. Neurons that enable honeybees to sense the waggle dance -- a form of symbolic...

"How many different cell types are there in a human body? And how do these differences develop? Nobody really knows,"...

Credit: Ning Qian/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have contributed to solving a paradox of...

Credit: NIAID, Flickr, CC BY Researchers successfully built a gene drive to reduce female fertility in the mosquito that spreads...

Credit: Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Removal of a regulatory gene called LSD1 in adult mice induces changes in gene...

Credit: NASA Rutgers scientists have found an efficient way to enhance the nutritional value of corn - the world's largest...

New research identifies four factors that help women ex-convicts avoid committing crimes, offering insights that can be used to help...

Credit: D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) A Brazilian study, published in Scientific Reports on October 09, 2017, has...