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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: © F. Chen Exceptionally preserved trilobite fossils from China, dating back to more than 500 million years ago, have...

Credit: UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI - Researchers at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and...

Beta cells release insulin in your blood, but when you suffer from Type 1 diabetes, you hardly have any of...

(Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) How did Neanderthals grow? Does modern man develop in the same way as Homo neanderthalensis...

The good news: Recognizing the incredible value of forests in providing habitat, storing carbon dioxide, purifying water and more, people...

Making a bold commitment to develop groundbreaking approaches for treating brain diseases and injuries, The University of Texas at San...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--With a new $5.5 million, five-year federal grant, a Case Western Reserve University researcher is...

Credit: KU News Service LAWRENCE -- The search for biology on neighbor planet Mars won't play out like a Hollywood...

Credit: Flower images: Andreas Fleischmann, Trap images: Plant Biomechanics Group Freiburg Bladderworts (Utricularia spp. Lentibulariaceae) are plants with many superlatives:...

Credit: University of Bristol Researchers at the University of Bristol have been taking a close-up look at the biting mouthparts...

Many research groups have recently explored human adaptation and successfully identified candidate genes to high altitude living among three major...

Researchers have quantified the astonishingly high speeds at which future solar cells would have to operate in order to stretch...