Biology

Credit: Jim Rivers, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - A groundbreaking two-year study in southern Oregon found greater abundance and diversity of...

Researchers of Kaunas University of Technology and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) developed innovative micronutrient rich food product for...

Nutrient pollution has been blamed for algal blooms and degradation of coral reefs along Maui's west coastCredit: Peter Swarzenski, USGS...

New research on the natural world, environmental exposures, opioids and pregnancy Embargoed press materials are now available for the Experimental...

For some, time commitment, cost and allergies stand in the way of pet ownership ANN ARBOR, MI - A curled-up...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 3, 2019) - Levels of a gene that helps the...

Credit: Ignazio Carbone It's not fun when a fungus contaminates crops. Safe native fungi, however, show promise in the fight...

A high-throughput method to quantify plant biochemical responses with small tissue samples Plants can't run away to avoid being eaten,...

A plant-based whole food diet reduced gingivitis in a recent randomized trial published in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology. For...

In "Conspicuous Plumage Does Not Increase Predation Risk: A Continent-Wide Test Using Model Songbirds," published in the American Naturalist, Kristal...

Credit: Sara Santiago For five decades, the U.S. government's mission to intercept or seize cocaine and other drugs entering the...

Research finds no substantial association between risk, 18 highly-studied genes Over the past quarter-century, researchers have published hundreds of studies...

Credit: Bernard Goffinet/UConn Photo In a Nature Communications paper published today, an international research team including UConn's Bernard Goffinet used...

MRSA, a superbug with the ability to dodge many common antibiotics, could be cured with blue lightCredit: Purdue University/Rebecca Wilcox...

Description of genes involved in sugarcane root cell separation could lead to the development of varieties with softened cell walls...

Credit: American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minnesota (March 2019)--Corn is one of the most important staple crops in the world--over...

Credit: Frank Blattner/IPK The origin of C. sativus has long been the subject of speculation and research, as this knowledge...

Collaborative, Penn-led study finds unique genetic variants may inform future treatments for each alcohol disorder PHILADELPHIA - A large genomic...

The unicellular parasite that causes sleeping sickness differs from other eukaryotes in the mode of regulation of an essential cellular...

How could prebiotic information-bearing DNA sequences survive in the face of competition from a vast excess of shorter molecules with...