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Credit: Kikkawa lab, The University of Tokyo A research team led by Masahide Kikkawa, a professor of the University of...

(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) Surprisingly, the functions of a huge number of microbial genes are still unknown....

Credit: OIST In multicellular organisms, including humans, most DNA is coiled up within the cell's nucleus. A small part, however,...

Credit: Photo by Steph Adams CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In a new study in mice, researchers have identified a key protein...

Credit: (Josh Hihath, UC Davis; Yonggang Ke, Emory University) Josh Hihath is trying to fuse biology and electrical engineering and...

Credit: Yonggang Ke, Biomedical Engineering Department, Emory University and Georgia Tech To address a worldwide need for data storage that...

Credit: Courtesy, Christopher Haiman LOS ANGELES - The Keck School of Medicine of USC is leading a $26.5 million effort...

Credit: University of Utah In a new study, a team led by University of Utah biologists has discovered that different...

Credit: Photo by Andrew Aman, David Parichy, University of Virginia, for the journal eLife. When sea creatures first began crawling...

A novel drug based on capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their spicy burn, caused long term weight loss...

An independent inquiry by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that editing the DNA of a human embryo, sperm,...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) An international team of scientists led by Helmholtz Zentrum München...

Drinking coffee seems to have its perks. In addition to the physical boost it delivers, coffee may lessen our risk...

Credit: University of Otago Recent research undertaken by University of Otago Cure Kids Professor Paediatric Genetics, Stephen Robertson, highlights the...

July 17, 2018 - Professional baseball players who score higher on a test of hand-eye coordination have better batting performance...

In a large international study involving almost 900,000 participants, researchers from the University of Copenhagen and COPSAC have found new...

Scientists have found that deleting a single gene in a particular strain of gut bacteria causes changes in metabolism and...

Credit: Osaka University Practice is necessary to improve motor skills. Even if one performs poorly at first, one's athletic performance...

Nitric oxide gas produced by a type of harmful bacteria lets roundworms know to stay away from it, says a...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University A neuroscientist from Florida Atlantic University's Jupiter Life Science Initiative (JLSI) and collaborators from the University...