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Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/eLife A recent study led by Samantha Butler at the Eli and Edythe Broad...

Scientists have identified a hotspot for autism-related mutations in a single gene. By studying data from thousands of genomes of...

Credit: Walter Dodds, Kansas State University. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded five jurisdictions nearly $20 million each through...

Credit: Nick Youngson In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, many claims have been made that science denial, particularly...

Credit: Image courtesy of US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases For the first time, scientists have used Positron...

Credit: InDevR, Inc. InDevR, a Boulder-based progressive analytical technology and life science instrumentation company today announced that it has entered...

Credit: Takehara et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 19, 2017 - Fluorescence microscopy gives researchers incredible power to illuminate the tiniest...

NOAA Fisheries researchers and colleagues at the New England Aquarium have developed a new model to improve estimates of abundance...

Credit: University of Sheffield. New insights into how animals spin silk could lead to new, greener ways of producing synthetic...

Credit: Group Jan Vermant, ETH Zurich Oktoberfest in Munich is an exciting cultural event, but it is also a source...

Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - When it comes to male reproductive fertility, timing is everything. Now scientists are finding new...

Credit: Frederico Padilla With 72 species currently identified, Espeletia is a plant genus endemic to the paramo, a moist alpine...

New Haven, Conn. -- An international Yale-led research team has shown that a risk profile based on 52 genes accurately...

Scientists have uncovered two related cytokines and associated genetic markers that may explain why some people develop progressive multiple sclerosis,...

Credit: European Union, 2017 Average surface temperatures of the Black Sea may not have risen, according to the surprising results...

How many undergraduate classes in microbiology -- or any scientific field, for that matter -- can say they're published in...

Credit: Wits University Complex life, as we know it, started completely by chance, with small strands of molecules linking up,...

Petersham, MA - New England has been losing forestland to development at a rate of 65 acres per day, according...

Credit: VTT The method develop at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland involves dissolving worn and discarded cotton and using...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have identified a pair of proteins that show promise as the basis...