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From Ecology:Credit: Nandintsetseg Dejid From Ecology: Itinerant gazelle travels 18,000 kilometers across Mongolian steppe Author contact: Nandintsetseg Dejid ([email protected]) In...

To address climbing economic losses from swine that contract the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, Virginia Tech researchers in the College of...

 An anti-tumor drug promotes weight loss in mice at low doses by activating a natural hunger-suppressing pathway, according to a...

With some home security software and a little ingenuity, researchers have developed an inexpensive device that will allow them to...

Researchers from the Babraham Institute have today published their latest work in the journal Cell Stem Cell describing a new...

In molecular biology, transcription is the process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA, whereas a transcription factor (or...

Divide, differentiate or die? Making decisions at the right time and place is what defines a cell’s behavior and is...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a new image reconstruction approach that could contribute to better breast cancer detection. The deep...

Zebrafish and humans look very different on the outside. Yet about 70 percent of their genes are similar to human genes...

Osaka, Japan – Osteoblasts act in a group to make bone over the course of several months. However, how osteoblasts...

Doctors have warned that people should try to avoid taking dissolving, fizzy paracetamol that contains salt, following findings from a...

An analysis of data from more than 11,000 older Japanese adults suggests that seniors who own a dog may be...

Common traits of the species vulnerable to extinction identified in new analysis of mammals, birds and plants Credit: Jacob Plumb,...

A key transcription factor in T-cell immunology is crucial to the immune system’s “memory” in recognizing threats it has already...

When is a container not just a container?Credit: Bryer et al. When is a container not just a container? For...

A research team in the Louisiana State University Department of Biological Sciences led by Assistant Professor Adam Bohnert has published a...

A large study that investigates just what keeps our brains sharp as we age and what contributes to cognitive decline...

The reign of the dinosaurs ended in springCredit: illustration by Joshua Knüppe, based on research and commissioned by Melanie During...

The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. This conclusion was drawn by an international...

A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the...