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Credit: Jesse Miller/UC Davis Woody vegetation, such as trees and shrubs, has increased dramatically in Ozark grasslands over the past...

Within Danish cattle breeding the semen of one breeding bull is used to inseminate a lot of cows. Due to...

Credit: Cornell Lab of Ornithology ITHACA, N.Y. - Human activities could change the pace of evolution, similar to what occurred...

Credit: VIIBRE, Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University researchers has received a two-year, $2-million federal grant to develop...

New research is set to change the textbook understanding of how plants breathe. Previous explanations of how plants take up...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 21, 2017 - Expanding the high-dose influenza vaccine recommendation to include middle-aged adults with chronic health conditions may...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Chronic tissue inflammation resulting from obesity is an underlying cause of insulin resistance and type...

Credit: World Scientific The 1980s witnessed technologies focus on reducing costs and improving performance. However, at the turn of 21st...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapy has been shown to be very effective in recurrent and metastatic head...

Credit: BES Photo Archive (Millbrook, NY) Through a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study...

Credit: Professor Shinichiro Sawa Orchids are loved by gardeners around the world but are notoriously difficult to cultivate. Japanese researchers...

Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. - An investigational therapy using modified poliovirus to attack cancer tumors appears to unleash the...

Credit: David Hungate/VTC Research Institute Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have successfully determined the full architecture of...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- By delivering strands of genetic material known as messenger RNA (mRNA) into cells, researchers can induce the...

A new study of the human microbiome -- the trillions of microbial organisms that live on and within our bodies...

The first time a young surgeon threads a wire through a stroke victim's chest up through their neck and fishes...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (Sept. 20, 2017) Is it better to do a task quickly and make mistakes,...

Credit: Image courtesy of Michelle Monje, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University. New research conducted in mice provides evidence that highly lethal...

(Boston) - Colorectal cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In a new study, researchers demonstrate for...

PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 20, 2017) -- A study conducted at The Wistar Institute has led to the identification of a...