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Inside your body on the surface of cell membranes, a metaphorical communication and traffic network is underway as hormones -...

HOUSTON ― Neal G. Copeland, Ph.D., and Nancy A. Jenkins, Ph.D., both professors of Genetics at The University of Texas MD...

Maize, or corn, is cultivated globally, as food, feedstock, and biofuel source, and is one of the most widely produced...

A human immune system is a lot like the board game Mouse Trap: it’s a Rube Goldberg system of interacting...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 22, 2022) – Deep in the brain a group of large neurons produce a hormone which prompts our...

SAN DIEGO, March 22, 2022 — The colon might be the last place people would consider getting a tattoo, but...

It’s well understood that populations of species don’t distribute at random. Rather, as populations grow, individuals are organized around barriers...

Researchers and artists from the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) and the University of Newcastle have collaborated to create a...

Suppose that we could watch twenty generations of whales or sharks adapting to climate change—measuring how they evolve and how...

The National Institutes of Health is awarding a $3.8 million grant to John Rossmeisl, the Dr. and Mrs. Dorsey Taylor...

Have you ever wondered why it is so different how quickly and how much small babies put on weight during...

While the popular Netflix movie "Don’t Look Up" has raised public consciousness to the potential catastrophic effects of asteroid impact...

A University of Texas at Arlington computer science and engineering assistant professor has received a National Institutes of Health grant...

Amsterdam, March 21, 2022 – Patients with liver disease are particularly vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19. The Journal of...

Social mingling shapes and transforms the ‘vocabularies’ of apes, just like in humans, according to new research led by the...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (March 21, 2022) — When something goes wrong during DNA replication, cells call their own version of...

An international research team discovered the first human antibody to effectively neutralize two types of hantaviruses in animal models, according...

Apart from honey bees and perhaps a few butterflies, there are very few insects with “celebrity status”. Even though many...

Key points:Credit: RMIT University Key points: Antibacterial texturing kills bacteria, extending food’s shelf life. Comes amid huge demand to improve...

Baleen plates – the signature bristle-like apparatus toothless whales use to feed – reveal how these large aquatic mammals adapt...