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Methanotrophic bacteria consume 30 million metric tons of methane per year and have captivated researchers for their natural ability to...

NEW YORK – Scientists have long known that learning requires the flow of calcium into and out of brain cells....

Think evolution is a slow, gradual process? Tell that to fruit flies. In a new report in Science, researchers from...

Has a song ever reminded you of the past, and unexpectedly surfaced emotions associated with that specific experience or person...

Metastases in cancer are often caused by a few abnormal cells. These behave more aggressively than the other cancer cells...

One of the most common disorders globally, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a leading cause of death worldwide. Its...

By filtering waste products and toxins from the urine, the kidney is one of the most important players in human...

An international team of scientists found that sociality is linked to stress in Asian elephants. For example, loneliness increased male...

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the destruction of a specific population of neurons: the dopaminergic neurons. The...

Ruffs are characterized by three supergene variants that lead to different appearances and courtship behavior in males. Whether these variants...

A team of scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Oxford Brookes University found that a rare species of...

Yasin Dagdas, Group Leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences,...

How the lower jaw — mandible — develops and consequently how and why some developmental birth defects occur is the...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Twenty years ago, clinicians first attempted to regenerate a failing human heart by injecting muscle myoblasts into...

A small preliminary study from Northwestern Medicine has shown that a blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis...

Performance of elite show-jumping horses reveals that faults are predictable, and are most likely at jumps with water and fences...

56 million years ago a period of abrupt global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), was caused by...

Tumors can use an enzyme called ART1 to thwart antitumor immune cells, making the enzyme a promising new target for...

A new imaging technique for real 3D vascular ultrasound could become a key tool in strategies aimed at preventing cardiovascular...

AMES, Iowa – The ability to generate a patient’s blood cells in order to treat blood diseases has eluded scientists...