Biology

A new paper in JNCI Cancer Spectrum, published by Oxford University Press, is the first study to find that diets...

Researchers in Brazil find that high levels of heavy metals and particulate matter suspended in the atmosphere restrict the growth...

Credit: R. Oldenbourg and E. Garner WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- The slender, rod-shaped Bacillus subtilis is one of the best-studied...

Common business practices, including enticing rebates, improves adoption of new cookstoves in rural IndiaCredit: Duke Global Health DURHAM, N.C. -...

MADISON, Wis. -- In August 2016, areas of Yellowstone National Park that burned in 1988 burned again. Shortly after, in...

Technology could enable new medical, industrial, environmental biosensorsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University synthetic biologists have hacked bacterial sensing with...

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers have used CRISPR technology to probe the mechanisms that guide the developmental trajectories of stem...

Credit: Ivan Nekhaev, a postdoc at St Petersburg University Ivan Nekhaev, a postdoc at St Petersburg University, studied snails of...

Historic climate change events can have a lasting impact on the genetic diversity of a species, reveals a new study...

Ecologist Prof. Ulrich Brose of Friedrich Schiller University Jena and of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) has...

The new Research Training Group 'Gene Regulation in Evolution: From Molecular to Extended Phenotypes' gives a boost to Mainz University...

UC San Diego researchers discover new role for epidermal growth factor receptor in blood stem cell development, a crucial key...

Credit: Universidad de Córdoba High temperatures and low humidity. Summer is approaching and, with it, the fire danger fire season....

Credit: FENG Yingang and LIU Yajun Transcription is the process of synthesizing messenger RNA by RNA polymerase based on the...

Exposure to environmental pollutants can cause alterations in brain development that affect sexual development and fertility for several generations, according...

Sleep in teenagers can be improved by just one week of limiting their evening exposure to light-emitting screens on phones,...

A revolutionary new study using only materials derived from humans has revealed that insulin-producing beta cells can change their function...

The study shows the advantages of herbicide spraying and intensive fertilization in reforestation programs to mitigate the effects of climate...

A team of Swedish and British scientists have studied the heritability of dog ownership using information from 35,035 twin pairs...

Modern weapons, commercial hunting, fragmented landscapes impacting local subsistence hunters in Neotropical rain forestsCredit: Galo Zapata-Rios/WCS Scientists with the Universidad...