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Credit: Lauren Brent The social status of a rhesus macaque affects the nature of its immune system, where low-status animals show greater antibacterial responses and...

Researchers have identified a mechanism by which cells undergo reprogramming in live mice, a phenomenon that had previously been poorly understood. The finding could potentially...

Credit: Photo by Lauren Brent, University of Exeter DURHAM, N.C. -- The richest and poorest Americans differ in life expectancy by more than a decade....

Pesticide regulation, diversified farming systems and long-term monitoring are all ways governments can help to secure the future of pollinators such as bees, flies and...

Credit: Frances Arnold lab/Caltech A new study is the first to show that living organisms can be persuaded to make silicon-carbon bonds--something only chemists had...

Credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News Service A nanosize squeeze can significantly boost the performance of platinum catalysts that help generate energy in fuel cells, according to...

Credit: Frances Arnold Lab/Caltech Following a few tweaks, heme proteins can efficiently catalyze the formation of carbon-silicon bonds, which are not found in any known...

Cell reprogramming does not happen exactly as we thought. In the pages of the journal Science, a team from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre...

Credit: UHN (TORONTO, Canada - Nov. 24, 2016) - A team of researchers from the iDAPT labs at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network are dedicated...

Credit: Michael Westerman In a new paper, published in Scientific Reports, an international team of researchers has analysed fossils and DNA from living and recently...

One of the most serious complications of diabetes, heart arrhythmias, is now on its way to be prevented and combated. Researchers from the Federal University...

Credit: Victor Kostyuchenko, Duke-NUS Medical School As Zika spreads throughout the world, the call for rapid development of therapeutics to treat Zika rings loud and...

Credit: László Forró/EPFL EPFL scientists have developed a new perovskite material with unique properties that can be used to build next-generation hard drives. As we...

Credit: Washington University Patients with the most lethal form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) - based on genetic profiles of their cancers - typically survive...

(American Academy of Neurology) A new study suggests that having surgery may be linked to developing Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) for people with cancer or autoimmune...