A University of Massachusetts Amherst nurse innovator and a research partner have received a $750,000 grant from Illinois-based Delta Dental Foundation to test an oral health strategy aimed at...
They thrive everywhere from bustling cities to remote rainforests — even in our own backyards. Pervasive and unapologetic mooches, parasites rely on other organisms for...
Cows moo. Wolves howl. Birds tweet. And fish, it turns out, make all sorts of ruckus.Credit: Photo credit: Kieran Cox Cows moo. Wolves howl. Birds...
DALLAS, TX – The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) published its position statement, “Reducing Intentional Head-first Contact Behavior in American Football Players” today in the...
Mollusk shells at 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages indicate that environmental change may have driven the formation and abandonment of these coastal communities, according...
Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have discovered that power-producing organelles in the eye’s photoreceptor cells, called mitochondria, function as microlenses that help channel...
In one cleft surgery NGO mission trip in Morocco, an all-female healthcare team empowered volunteers to seek further mentorship as well as to mentor othersCredit:...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECredit: Allyn DiVito FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE It may be possible to identify the presence of an aggressive brain tumor in children by studying...
All life evolves: microorganisms can become resistant to drugs, viruses evade our vaccines, and species may adapt to climate change. Even the ability to evolve...
The evolutionary relationships among grasses—including important crop plants like wheat, rice, corn, and sugarcane—have been clarified in new molecular study of the grass family tree....
Woods Hole, MA (March 2, 2022) – New research shows turtles can experience temporary hearing loss from an excess of underwater noise. This phenomenon, previously...
The discrepancy between preclinical advances in breast cancer immunotherapy and poor patient outcomes is rooted in the limitations of current breast cancer models. These models...
One of the grand challenges with using CRISPR-based gene editing on humans is that the molecular machinery sometimes makes changes to the wrong section of...
Marcel Dicke (@DickeMarcel) already knew that insects are an excellent source of protein for humans, but he didn’t expect to learn that they have such...
A team of researchers from China, Germany, France and Spain, has revealed the lifestyle of humans living in East Asia 40,000 years ago.Credit: IVPP A...
