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Credit: Alex Papadopolous In a paper published today in Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens,...

A new international research group has been established to investigate the underlying genetic causes of cerebral palsy, spurred on by...

Credit: Mukherjee et al., 2017. Whether growing in a puddle of dirty water or inside the human body, large groups...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have received two...

A common type of bacteria is causing a major healthcare crisis as we inch closer towards the last line of...

Credit: Stewart Macdonald Australian tiger snakes have "hit the jackpot" because prey cannot evolve resistance to their venom. While that...

(Lund University) Decades of research has shown that apes, in spite of their proverbial aping abilities, are rather poor imitators,...

Credit: (Copyright: https://strawlab.org/freemovr) From behavior to brain function A person sees another person and depending on the context very different...

Credit: Image courtesy of Vector Space Systems HRL Laboratories, LLC, has received an award as part of NASA's Space Technology...

The new cold-tolerant hybrid strains developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland enable fermentation at lower and higher temperatures...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Our bodies are lined on the inside with soft, microscopic carpets of hair, from the grassy extensions...

Credit: Arima Y., et al. eLife. August 15, 2017. New research reveals the mechanisms behind the effects of chronic stress...

Credit: Huang Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - The brain's astonishing anatomical complexity has been appreciated for over 100...

Credit: Ulf Ahlgren, Umeå University Researchers from Umeå University in Sweden describe a new method to study biochemical changes that...

Credit: UNSW Sydney UNSW Sydney scientists studying microbes from some of the saltiest lakes in Antarctica have discovered a new...

Credit: Diego Cotterle By 2100 some Southern Hemisphere whale species will not have reached half their pre-whaling numbers, while other...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - August 21, 2017 - Not much is known about stem cell metabolism, but a new...

Credit: DGIST A new, electronic skin microsystem tracks heart rate, respiration, muscle movement and other health data, and wirelessly transmits...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In new results reported in The Plant Cell, molecular biologist Elizabeth Vierling at the...

Credit: A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore Singapore - New research has discovered a potential means to trigger damaged heart cells...