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Credit: University of Houston An obesity intervention for Hispanic middle school students led by researchers at the University of Houston...

Credit: University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON, Wis. – People at risk for Alzheimer's disease who do more moderate-intensity physical activity, but...

Credit: Maurizio Bacci PHILADELPHIA – A new $21 million gift to the Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer...

AMES, Iowa – It was late in the year, but Panama was still muggy and rain clouds were closing in....

Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school....

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, USA (Aug. 5, 2016) — Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio...

Credit: UW-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center All living cells are basically squishy balloons full of water, proteins and...

Credit: Photo courtesy of the Kawaoka lab, UW-Madison Scientists have identified a set of biomarkers that indicate which patients infected...

Credit: Sinc Spanish researchers have estimated the duration of solar radiation exposure required in order to obtain the recommended doses...

Obese mice are much more likely than lean mice to overeat in the presence of environmental cues, a behavior that...

ATLANTA–Andrew Gewirtz, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a four-year, $1.8-million federal...

LSU researchers Jeremy M. Brown and Eric N. Rittmeyer, in collaboration with colleagues at Florida State University, are shedding light...

Credit: Courtesy Kristen Tummeltshammer PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Just six months into the world, babies already have the capacity to learn,...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – In a study of children with brain shunts at Children's of Alabama, a University of Alabama at...

There's an ancient group of algae that evolved in the world's oceans before our backboned ancestors crawled onto land. They...

Credit: Hokkaido University Large, physically strong Masu salmon disperse farther when infected with parasites, potentially escaping from further infections at...

Credit: UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences Touch is the first of the five senses to develop, yet scientists...

Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Michael Pulsipher, MD, of the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital...

Publication in Genes & Development: researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB develop new techniques to assess the fate...

HANOVER, N.H. – Dartmouth College scientists have discovered that marine microalgae can completely replace the wild fish oil currently used...