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Soils are home to diverse microbial communities that cycle nutrients, support agriculture, and trap carbon – an important service for...

Researchers leading a worldwide clinical trial aimed at finding treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are modifying an arm of the trial...

Over the last decade, John Huntley, a paleontologist and an associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Missouri,...

DALLAS (November 4, 2021) – Tuesday evening, the Center for BrainHealth® brought together a who’s who of academic leaders, scientists...

Yellow fever is a non-contagious viral disease with two transmission cycles, sylvatic (in wild animals) and urban. Sylvatic yellow fever...

Cut off the head of a three-banded panther worm and another will take its place — mouth, brain, and all....

Three-banded panther worms are an incredibly impressive marine animal. Known scientifically as the acoel worm named Hofstenia miamia, these tiny...

Prurigo nodularis (PN) is a chronic skin disease that affects an estimated 72 out of 100,000 people in the U.S....

Scientists in Australia have used tin mono-sulfide (SnS) nanosheets to create the thinnest X-ray detector ever made, potentially enabling real-time...

By signing with the scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft, Contributions to Entomology - a journal by the Senckenberg German...

Stem cells are true multi-talents. They can develop into any cell type of an organism - in humans there are...

The membranes of cancer cells are more pliant than the membranes of normal cells. A research collaboration has discovered that...

Ischemia, which in modern Latin means, “staunching of blood,” is a medical condition in which the blood supply is cut...

Philadelphia, November 8, 2021 – As Black women continue to have the lowest breastfeeding initiation and duration rates in the...

A ground-breaking new, mobile phone app, ‘GrowthMonitor’ places the accurate measurement of children’s height in the hands of parents and...

Children with kidney cancers continue to be diagnosed with larger and more advanced tumours in the UK and Ireland than...

Patients with two out of the three most common types of advanced breast cancer now have an average survival time...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are a class of fire-retardant chemicals that are ubiquitous. They are found on...

New research, published in Scientific Reports by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) postdoctoral fellow Karina Chavarria and colleagues, shows that...

It is essential for cells to control precisely which of the many genes of their genetic material they use. This...