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The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) has accepted to index three Open Access journals published by Bentham Open. The titles...

Credit: Graphic: Susan Walter, UFZ In the meantime, minute plastic particles can be found in the water in virtually every...

Signal Detection Theory is a popular and well-established idea that has influenced behavioral science for around 50 years. Essentially, the...

HIV infection alters brain development in young children, even when they receive antiretroviral treatment early in life, shows a report...

Credit: University of Kentucky LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 17, 2017) -- Picture this: you're battling heart failure and meeting with your...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Loading nanofiber sutures with vitamin D induces the production of an infection-fighting peptide, new research shows. The...

Credit: Wolf Science Center/Vetmeduni Vienna Following domestication, dogs should be more tolerant and cooperative with conspecifics and humans compared to...

A team of researchers at VIB and KU Leuven used stem cell technology to generate motor neurons from ALS patients...

ORANGE, Calif. - Chapman University has earned the largest federal research grant in the university's history. The National Institutes of...

How can a bee fly straight home in the middle of the night after a complicated route through thick vegetation...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University researchers have developed a computational model to quantify the mechanism by which CRISPR-Cas9 proteins...

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) has struck formal collaborations with 15 international genomic data initiatives as 2017...

Credit: Graphic: team Gallant Most human tumours have one thing in common: They harbour drastically increased amounts of the so-called...

Two recent studies led by biologists at the University of California San Diego have set the research groundwork for new...

Up to sixteen weeks of intermittent fasting without otherwise having to count calories helps fight obesity and other metabolic disorders....

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original...

Researchers have shown that genetic diversity plays a key role in enabling drug resistance to evolve. Scientists at the Wellcome...

Credit: UCLA Engineering If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb -- or delicately handle an egg while...

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL - Oct. 17, 2017 - In findings that open the door to a...

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...