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PHILADELPHIA -- The United States in recent years has increased healthcare access by broadening Medicaid coverage, but some worry that...

Credit: Bret Tobalske MISSOULA - There are two primary types of muscles. Skeletal muscles allow one to raise a limb...

Credit: Melissa Frey, Royal BC Museum, Canada Alaska has a near-pristine marine ecosystem--it has fewer invasive species in its waters...

Credit: University of California, Irvine Irvine, Calif. - September 27, 2018 - UCI School of Medicine researchers have been awarded...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists have determined for the first time that Amazon's waterlogged coastal mangrove forests, which are being clear...

Credit: Christine Sur/UC Davis Even after being severely damaged by blast fishing and coral mining, coral reefs can be rehabilitated...

A vaccine against deadly foal pneumonia might finally be within reach, thanks to Morris Animal Foundation-funded research conducted at two...

Credit: Janne Hansen Maybe the genetic test report your doctor ordered says your DNA contains many "variants of unknown significance."...

Credit: Egeblad lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have...

Chronic back pain is the number one cause of years lived with disability worldwide. In a new study, Pradeep Suri...

The rapid emergence and global spread of antibiotic resistance demands a new approach for developing novel ones. A study published...

Pea aphids - a serious agricultural pest - have the ability to see and avoid a common, aphid-killing bacteria on...

Credit: Huanyu Qiao and Neil Hunter, UC Davis Females are born with a finite number of eggs that are steadily...

DURHAM, N.C. - In the quest to develop a vaccine that triggers the immune system to prevent HIV infection, researchers...

Credit: Copyright Viktor Radermacher A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa's Free State Province....

Credit: Professor William Foster, University of Cambridge Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Cambridge have shed light on why...

How do the large-scale patterns we observe in evolution arise? A new paper in the journal Evolution by researchers at...

Fantastic news for the University of Konstanz: Two of its three cluster initiatives will receive funding through the German Excellence...

Mathematicians at the Higher School of Economics have developed a model that explains how cell specialization arises in the context...

Credit: Photo: Jürgen Gocke It is a major boost to cutting-edge research in Freiburg: in the current Excellence Strategy competition,...