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In April, the report of plastic bag eating caterpillars caused sensation in worldwide media. The authors around Federica Bertocchini of...

Credit: WEHI.TV/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research An international research team has shown for the first time that...

The excessive burst of new brain cells after a traumatic head injury that scientists have traditionally believed helped in recovery...

Credit: Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois Political and agricultural leaders gathered at the University of Illinois today to see transformative work...

A faculty member in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has received a $7.3 million grant for innovative research on...

For several years, medical researchers, doctors and dieticians have known that a low carbohydrate diet and plentiful fat can prevent...

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications describes a breakthrough in research related to facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)....

Amsterdam and Heidelberg, 15 September 2017 - SourceData (sourcedata.embo.org), an open platform from EMBO, designed to make published scientific data...

Credit: Alex Ross (Millbrook, NY) In the US, recreational fishing generates over $25 billion annually. Each year, 30 million people...

Insects and plants have an important ancient defence mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their...

Credit: Scheme Lab Scheme Lab, a biotech startup incubated at the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology (CIETEC), in São...

Credit: Michelle Lampe/Wolf Science Center A good example of the connection between cause and effect, is that an object which...

Credit: University of Toronto Mississauga The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable,...

These are the findings of a representative study recently conducted by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) on...

The proteins in human cells are extensively decorated with different types of sugars, a phenomenon called glycosylation. These modifications greatly...

SILVERTHORNE, CO - September 15, 2017 - Keystone Symposia will convene its first conference on the important topic of "Maternal-Fetal...

Credit: City College of New York City College of New York biologist Shubha Govind and her research team have identified...

Obese women with large bellies may be at risk of developing a different subtype of breast cancer than those with...

The largest genomic profiling study ever conducted into a type of brain tumor known as glioma in children has identified...

WASHINGTON -- The Endocrine Society today announced it has selected 14 leaders in the endocrinology field as winners of its...