Biology

Scientists isolate slow-growing variant Lyme bacteria forms that caused severe symptoms, resisted standard single-antibiotic Lyme treatment in the mouse model...

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - While many scientists are focused on the decline of honey bees, relatively...

Explorers have dreamt for centuries of a Fountain of Youth, with healing waters that rejuvenate the old and extend life...

WASHINGTON-- New research highlights the "incredible challenge" of reaching the Paris Agreement without intense action and details the extreme temperatures...

Protein researchCredit: RUB, Kramer Enormous therapeutic potential Researchers consider optogenetics to have enormous therapeutic potential. "It is feasible that light...

Plant cells absorb many important substances through a process called endocytosis. In plants, endocytosis is essential for nutrient uptake, passing...

Credit: Copyright Yasuyuki Hashidoko, Hokkaido University. The cycad Cycas revoluta is a palm-like plant that grows on rocky coastal cliffs...

Credit: National University of Singapore Cognitive impairment associated with cancer, also known as "chemobrain", has gained recognition as a complication...

New global atlas offers new way to map coral reefs from spaceCredit: Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation MIAMI--A study...

Credit: Albin Andersson The insecticide clothianidin affects different species of bees in different ways. While it has no demonstrably negative...

Washington, DC - April 23, 2019 - In a study published this week, an international team of researchers conducted high-resolution...

Washington, DC - April 23, 2019 - A new study has identified no major differences between the microbiomes of people...

Credit: Qi Zhang, Ph.D. and Claire E. DelBove Worldwide, 50 million people are living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias....

Credit: UBC Media Relations Mice have a strong preference to nest away from their own waste and should be housed...

Researchers have defined the roles of various cells in the bone marrow that are thought to control the fate of...

Family quarrels in seeds reveal the ways parents and offspring sometimes evolve in conflicting directions It's spring, finally -- and...

Thousands of single cells profiled in parallel for multiple modalities including direct detection of single guide RNAs used for CRISPR...

Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office A physical effect known as superinjection underlies modern light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers. For decades this...

A switch to permanent daylight saving time will undo any positive effects on sleep of delaying school start times, according...

Credit: Qian Cheng/Columbia Engineering Climate change poses a serious challenge to the human society and it is generally believed that...