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Nitrate is the most common contaminant in aquifers and tap water throughout the world, but its effects on human health...

Any scientist who studies groups of people knows that the characteristics of the "sample" -- the group of people selected...

Credit: Lilian Hsiao New research from North Carolina State University, MIT and the University of Michigan finds that the surface...

There is no effective treatment for the cancer form found in the liver called fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, which is mainly...

New research suggests that the last common ancestor of apes--including great apes and humans--was much smaller than previously thought, about...

Credit: University of Alberta Recent research discoveries in the development of brain disorders could pave the way to new therapies...

Credit: AG Tampé FRANKFURT. The immune system checks the health of cells of the body by examining a kind of...

Patients with a rare bone cancer of the skull and spine - chordoma - could be helped by existing drugs,...

EUGENE, Ore. -- Oct. 12, 2017 -- Although proteins have very different function functions, or specialties, in living cells, they...

A major obstacle to applying genetic engineering to benefit humans and the environment is the risk that organisms whose genes...

Credit: Dr. Bimal Banik et al., Bentham Science Publishers Indoloquinoline alkaloids have received significant popularity because of their antimalarial and...

Fifty-two previously unidentified genes that are critical for hearing have been found by testing over 3,000 mouse genes. The newly...

Scientific research at the ULB Center for Diabetes Research and the Erasmus Hospital of the ULB leads to the identification...

Credit: Amy Wolf & Patrick Slattery, Vanderbilt University Creating a model pipeline that will assist adults on the autism spectrum...

Public utility managers will be able to predict drinking water quality more accurately thanks to a team of scientists with...

The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. The illicit wildlife trade is a...

Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz Biofuels obtained from biomass are becoming increasingly important. Apart from biomethane, however, they cannot...

Credit: Michael McCarthy/UW Medicine Most cases of autism appear to be associated with the appearance of new mutations that are...

Credit: UNU-EHS Bonn, 12 September 2017 - Today, the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) won the prestigious 2017 Momentum for...

HANOVER, N.H. - Oct. 12, 2017 - Concentration of carbon dioxide during an intense period of global warmth may have...