Biology

National legislation as well as bans under the international CITES agreement not slowing the trade in seahorse productsCredit: ©Amanda Vincent,...

Forests, Carbon Sinks, Cannot Make Up for Delays in Decarbonizing the Economy WASHINGTON--To stabilize the Earth's climate for people and...

'Food inequality, injustice and rights' As the world population swells, the inequitable distribution of food around the globe is prompting...

Credit: Bret Pasch Studying the songs of mice from the cloud forests of Costa Rica, researchers from New York University...

Ion mobility-mass spectrometry allowed for a closer examinationCredit: The McLean Group Every bit of information about a person's health -...

Credit: Professor Brian Pratt, University of Saskatchewan Prehistoric worms populated the sea bed 500 million years ago--evidence that life was...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Potocki-Lupski syndrome is a condition that results from having an extra copy of a small...

In old age, the amount of stem cells in the brains of mice decreases drastically. The remaining ones protect themselves...

NIH-funded project includes largest sample to date for Alzheimer's gene associationCredit: Image courtesy of Kunkle et al and Nature Genetics....

Credit: Image by Lauren Dauphin, NASA Earth Observatory. The Manaro Voui volcano on the island of Ambae in the nation...

Reconstitution of Amoebozoa's evolution shows significant Precambrian species diversity; this study changes the view of how life evolved in the...

Credit: © Institut Pasteur Malaria, which claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year - mainly children and especially in...

Credit: Andrew Davis The Brassicaceae plant family boasts a stunning diversity of fruit shapes. But even in this cosmopolitan company...

North Queensland floods could cause 'freshwater bleaching' of GBRCredit: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/Greg Torda New research...

Credit: (c) Institut Pasteur The circulation of the dengue virus for the past sixty years in South-East Asia is relatively...

Scientists at the University of Bath have identified how a mutant gene in fish is involved in controlling stem cells....

Defenders' behavior and brain gene activity reflects origin of attacking slavemakersCredit: photo/©: Romain Libbrecht, iOME, JGU Temnothorax americanus is a...

A research team including University of Tsukuba identifies a gene that controls how legume roots form biological partnerships with two...

A new Johns Hopkins study offers promise towards someday being able to non-invasively examine changes in cancerous tumors to determine...

Credit: Photo: Priya Davidar & Jean-Philippe Puyravaud Protecting and expanding suitable habitats for wildlife is key to the conservation of...