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Credit: WCS NEW YORK (September 26, 2017) - A new WCS study, published in the journal Ecosystem Health and Sustainability,...

Researchers have found that three common species of Vibrio bacteria in Chesapeake Bay could increase with changing climate conditions by...

CAMBRIDGE, MA - People with Type 1 diabetes must check their blood glucose several times a day and inject themselves...

Credit: Matt Cashore Two papers involving ovarian cancer research at the University of Notre Dame's Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI),...

Credit: Rosimar Rivera Colón Known for their biodiversity richness, the Caribbean Islands are now adding two new species of bird-catcher...

GALVESTON, Texas - Scientists from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have gained new insight into how the...

Pigeons are capable of switching between two tasks as quickly as humans - and even more quickly in certain situations....

Credit: Jennifer Fisher/Oregon State University Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies At least every few weeks since the early 1960s,...

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Adding or removing water from a stem cell can change the destiny...

Citrus greening is a major challenge for Florida growers. The disease destroys the production, appearance, and economic value of citrus...

Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $680,000 grant to Wake Forest University Associate Professor...

Credit: Agnarsson lab A scientist at the University of Vermont and four of his undergraduate students have discovered 15 new...

One of the most contagious of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, is chronic wasting disease (CWD) which affects deer and represents...

If wine is cultivated in an area where forest fires occur more often, such as in Australia or Southern Italy,...

WASHINGTON, DC - September 26, 2017 - Cystic fibrosis patients have a wide variety of bacteria in their lungs, including...

Credit: Edmond Byrnes III, Joseph Heitman -- Duke; Valerie Knowlton - NC State DURHAM, N.C. -- Mutations tend to get...

(Portland, Ore.) Sept. 25, 2017 - Researchers at Portland State University found benzene and other potentially cancer-causing chemicals in the...

A new analytical approach, described in open-access journal Frontiers in Pediatrics, shows how different interventions - cesarean section, formula feeding,...

Credit: University of Illinois Department of Bioengineering. Over the last 17 years, scientists and engineers have developed synthetic gene circuits...

ATLANTA -- Many ethnic minority groups and elderly Americans are underrepresented in cancer clinical trials, according to results of a...