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Credit: The image was used as Figure 1 in their study, 'Bat wing biometrics: using collagen-elastin bundles in bat wings...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of Africa, they passed through the Middle East and...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) have...

When exposed in a laboratory to pollution levels comparable to those found in the atmosphere of the Amazon region during...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In fairy tales, all it takes to transform a frog into a prince, a servant into...

Credit: Nathan Skolski, UBC Okanagan Wine producers and grape growers have a new, powerful tool at their disposal to help...

With advances in genomics, scientists are discovering additional components of the DNA alphabet in animals. Do these unusual chemical modifications...

Researchers from LSTM's Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics have found a way of significantly reducing the treatment required for...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Oct. 24, 2017 -- As the brain has limited capability for...

The National Institutes of Health has launched a major effort to discover and catalog the brain's "parts list." The NIH's...

What role do genes play in egg, milk, and nut allergies? A study published in Nature Communications, led by the...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Physicians who see patients with mitochondrial disease now have a practical new tool--a set of...

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) announced today that Paul Tesar, DPhil, is the 2017 recipient of the NYSCF...

Analyzing samples from a prospective study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers found that human exposure to...

NASA's Twins Study preliminary results have revealed that space travel causes an increase in methylation, the process of turning genes...

Credit: Svetlana Alekseeva Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the Technical University of Denmark have developed a method that...

Nanotechnology plays an important role in removing toxic chemicals found in the soil. Currently more than 70 Environmental Protection Agency...

Credit: Dmitry Ghilarov/Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and David Lawson/John Innes Centre Picture a brand-new, unsharpened pencil. The graphite...

A clearly defined subpopulation of neurons in the brainstem is essential to execute locomotion at high speeds. Interestingly, these high-speed...

Credit: UW-Madison MADISON -- A trio of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research participated...