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Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - One in three American adults suffers from high blood pressure, or hypertension. The...

Credit: Edward Kalkreuter Researchers from North Carolina State University have engineered designer biosensors that can detect antibiotic molecules of interest....

Credit: Angelyn Nguyen/UCLA UCLA biophysicists have developed a new method to rapidly determine a single cell's stiffness and size --...

Credit: Group Matthias Peter / ETH Zurich Protein aggregates have a bad reputation. A number of human diseases, especially those...

Credit: Assist Basu Research from the University of Texas at Arlington and the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology suggests that...

Programming a molecular biology experiment can be similar to playing Sudoku; both are simple if you're working with only a...

They are everywhere, but invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are the unseen, influential forces behind the regulation of key...

How do fire-suppression chemicals and pesticides affect wildfire smoke and the health of those who breathe it? UC Davis graduate...

In October 24-26, EPFL will host at the SwissTech Convention Center an exciting Life Sciences Symposium: "Frontiers in Metabolism 2017...

Credit: Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services To keep pace with the fast-evolving study of cellular plant science, an international team...

New Orleans, LA - LSU Health New Orleans has been awarded a $1.85 million grant over five years by the...

Credit: Igor Slowing In every plant--from trees to crops--there exists a substance that makes up its wood or stems, fiber,...

(Portland, Ore.) Oct. 3, 2017 - Nearly 300 aquatic species have landed on American shores since the 2011 Japanese tsunami...

Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpää Researchers from the Universities of Turku and Helsinki, Finland, are the first in the world to discover...

Credit: North Carolina State University A study from North Carolina State University researchers shows that a neurotransmitter involved in relaying...

Credit: Nikita Taparia, University of Washington WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 3, 2017 -- About one quarter of the world's population suffers...

Despite being well-adapted to urban life, house sparrow numbers are falling. A study in open-access journal Frontiers in Ecology and...

(Rutgers University) Explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events, those notorious warming periods in the...

The first gene therapy for cancer, approved by the Food Drug Administration in August, will transform the treatment of a...

New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) has awarded NJIT engineer Eon Soo Lee a $50,000 Innovation Grant to develop a nanotechnology-enhanced...