Biology

Credit: José Capriles, Penn State As agriculture emerged in early civilizations, crops were domesticated in four locations around the world...

Credit: Tasuku Ogita Ph.D., the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Shinshu University, Japan. Research findings suggest gut microbes can effect allergic...

What did the Burrard Inlet look like in the past, compared to how it is now?Credit: Fanny Couture What did...

Credit: Biotangents Wearable biosensors are being developed to help monitor the health of livestock, particularly dairy cows, with the aim...

Credit: Tim Porch Leafhoppers are tiny insects. They are only about 3 millimeters long, smaller than a grain of rice....

Credit: Marcelo H. Cassini, PhD In most animals, females are larger than males, but in most mammals, males are larger...

Four decades of research provide some answersCredit: Phil Stouffer The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), located near Manaus,...

Credit: Christopher J. Malyniuk Chemotherapeutic drugs, also known as antineoplastic agents, that are prescribed to treat a range of cancer...

Credit: Alberto Lopez Torres GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico,...

In contrast with China and other countries where the disease spread slowly, in Brazil more than 300 people started the...

On April 7, Dragon is scheduled to undock from station, bringing samples, hardware and data from completed investigations back to...

Credit: F. Christopher Peritore-Galve Bacterial canker of tomato is a disease that leads to wilt, cankers, and eventually death. The...

Evaluating embryos by detecting secreted proteins using microfluidic droplets and multicolor fluorescenceCredit: Zeng Yong WASHINGTON, April 7, 2020 -- Infertility...

Credit: QUT An international team of scientists, led by QUT researchers, may help in producing large amounts of vaccine in...

A joint Russian-French-German paper was published in Nature CommunicationsCredit: Kazan Federal University The Russian side is represented by Structural Biology...

New findings show that a pair of complementary chemical defenses evolved independently in wallflowers, shaped by co-evolution with local insectsCredit:...

Credit: Kanazawa University One aspect of bacterial activity is the production of so-called extracellular membrane vesicles (MVs): biological 'packages' wrapped...

Credit: Marxa Figueiredo/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - In 2018, approximately 324,000 men died from cancer in the United States....

Credit: Yoshida et al./iScience For infants as young as four months, a hug from a parent makes all the difference....

Credit: World Scientific Have you ever wondered how your brain knows where you are, why your memories are tied to...