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Credit: Riikka Linnakoski New research on projected climate changes from the University of Helsinki indicates that climate change has an...

Failing an exam at school, getting rejected for a job or being screamed at by your teacher or superior are...

Stepping up to biologic therapy when methotrexate monotherapy fails offers minimal incremental benefit over using a combination of drugs known...

In adult mammal hearts, cardiomyoctyes do not proliferate following damage, like that caused by myocardial infarction. However, the inability to...

- New York, NY (May 29, 2017) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published...

Individual neurons can learn not only single responses to a particular signal, but also a series of reactions at precisely...

Credit: University of Southern Denmark For the first time, researchers have shown that a marine birds can hear under water....

Credit: Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School. (BOSTON) - The microbiome, or the collections of microorganisms present in the body,...

Credit: University of Tsukuba Narcolepsy, a serious sleep disorder in which patients often fall asleep uncontrollably, has been incurable because...

Scientists are seeking to develop chickpeas that can flourish in dry climates, to help some of the world's poorest farmers...

Overheated cities face climate change costs at least twice as big as the rest of the world because of the...

Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto & San Diego -- Is a warmer Arctic a canary of global warming? Since the 1970s...

Credit: United European Gastroenterology A new study highlights that children suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are not meeting the...

HAMILTON, ON, May 29, 2017 - The visual cortex, the human brain's vision-processing centre that was previously thought to mature...

Credit: ETH Zurich / Scott Jackson, Ioannis Manolaridis, Kaspar Locher Almost all living creatures have evolved mechanisms to remove toxins...

Credit: Ross Maynard In the Neotropics, there is a whole group of so-called glassfrogs that amaze with their transparent skin...

A study of post-mortem brain tissue reveals the human primary visual cortex (V1) develops gradually throughout life. The research, published...

Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Maintaining a good balance of iron in the body is necessary for health: too...

Credit: SFU A new study by Simon Fraser University biologists Dan Greenberg and Arne Mooers offers clues to why more...

Credit: United European Gastroenterology A new study highlights that children suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are not meeting the...