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Credit: Sue Nichols, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University Loving pandas isn't just a feel-good activity. Recent...

Credit: Photo of switchgrass harvest in East Tennessee by P. McDaniels, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A new grant sponsored...

Credit: UBC Public Affairs Industrial fishing fleets dump nearly 10 million tonnes of good fish back into the ocean every...

Newton, Mass. (June 26, 2017) - A new analysis shows that septic systems in the United States routinely discharge pharmaceuticals,...

Researchers have found that patients with acute heart failure and diabetes, compared with those without diabetes, have distinct markers related...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Results of a new study from epidemiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and...

Credit: Chan et al., Gradinaru Lab Viruses have evolved to be highly effective vehicles for delivering genes into cells. Seeking...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 26, 2017) Salk scientists have developed a new high-throughput technique to determine which proteins in...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Many cognitive processes, such as decision-making, take place within seconds or minutes. Neuroscientists have longed to capture...

One would think that too much iron is too much iron - whether it is ingested from particular foods or...

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 26, 2017 -- The art of video has proven to be truly revolutionary for informing the public...

The disappearance of a large part of the terrestrial megafauna such as saber-toothed cat and the mammoth during the ice...

And to think it was all right there in her garage. A load of boxes pulled from biologist Dale Straughan's...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (June 26, 2017)--With age comes a greater risk of depression, especially in women. With 15% of the female...

Most patients suffering liver toxicity due to medications or herbal or dietary supplements recover from the acute liver injury without...

June 26, 2017 - Activity monitors or fitness trackers are fun and informative gadgets to help track daily physical activity....

The first results from a functional genetic catalogue of the laboratory mouse has been shared with the biomedical research community,...

Credit: Center for Integration of Science and Industry Despite dramatic reductions in the death rate from cardiovascular disease, which includes...

Many genes linked to late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are expressed in myeloid cells and regulated by a single protein, according...

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2017 -- Elastography, sometimes referred as seismology of the human body, is an emerging technology used...