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Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - March 20, 2018 - A UT Southwestern study in mice provides new clues...

A switch has been discovered that instructs blood vessel cells to become blood stem cells during embryonic development in mice....

Dogs which show fear or anxiety when faced with loud or sudden noises should be routinely assessed for pain by...

CHICAGO--The oral diabetes medication metformin seems to reduce the chance of a late miscarriage and premature birth among women with...

Scientists have devised a method for predicting how rising global temperatures are likely to affect the severity of diseases mediated...

The nation's overall cardiovascular health worsened from 1988 to 2014, with disparities among racial and ethnic groups dropping slightly. But...

Credit: Carole Baldwin, Smithsonian Based on the unique fish fauna observed from a manned submersible on a southern Caribbean reef...

Credit: Azusa Kamikouchi Researchers at Nagoya University develop fruit fly model to explore how learned auditory cues alter mating behavior...

CHICAGO--People who take replacement thyroid hormone may have more comorbidities and lower quality of life than those who don't take...

Credit: Division of Life Science, HKUST Non-ribosomal peptide antibiotics, including polymyxin, vancomycin, and teixobactin, most of which contain D-amino acids,...

Communities in Mexico's Baja California Sur are to benefit from a self-sustaining program that uses Wolbachia mosquitoes to provide long-lasting...

Credit: Yisrael Schnytzer Almost all organisms have an internal biological clock that synchronizes their behavior with the environment in which...

Medical practitioners, such as those at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, frequently utilize mathematical models when determining how...

Credit: Photos: Sarah Redlich The greater the diversity of crops grown in agricultural landscapes is, the better natural enemies are...

Credit: Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally, UC Berkeley Hoppy beer is all the rage among craft brewers and beer lovers,...

Credit: USTC News Center Just as diamond ring is needed in marriage, NuA4/Tip60, a complex with diamond ring architecture, is...

Consumers already ingest high quantities of aluminium via their food, which means that it is likely that some people already...

ANN ARBOR -- Photosynthesis has driven life on this planet for more than 3 billion years -- first in bacteria,...

Credit: The Hope Foundation Men who take the medication finasteride get a prostate cancer prevention benefit that can last 16...

Credit: Virginia Tech Mosquitoes may have a reputation for being one of the world's most intractable pests, but they're actually...