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Around 500,000 people in the UK live with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), a life-long, chronic condition characterised by sporadic bouts of gut inflammation causing debilitating...

In a correspondence published in Current Biology, researchers have identified three active compounds in sex pheromones produced by virgin queens of the species Vespa mandarinia,...

Researchers working in one of the world’s most biodiverse and threatened ecosystems have discovered a new plant species, Castela senticosa, which they recommend be designated...

Women who are obese and struggling to become pregnant are often advised to lose weight, but a new study finds no fertility benefits from weight...

Higher lead levels in a mother's blood can increase the chance of her bearing male offspring, according to new research led by Japanese scientists at...

From sunflowers to starfish, symmetry appears everywhere in biology. This isn’t just true for body plans – the molecular machines keeping our cells alive are...

A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when it triggers memories of the pictured object like a vacation photo. 2D visual stimuli, such as...

Cavefish have obvious adaptations such as missing eyes and pale colors that demonstrate how they evolved over millennia in a dark, subterranean world.Credit: ANDREW HIGLEY/UC...

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have discovered a novel molecular process that corals use to control the subcellular environment of the...

 Tsukuba, Japan – Amino acids are the basic building blocks of living organisms and typically occur in a configuration known as the L-form. However, there...

Hamilton, ON, Mar. 11, 2022— Physicists, chemists and immunologists at McMaster University have teamed up to modify red blood cells to transport viral agents which...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture will host the 2023 U.S. Precision Livestock Farming Conference. The theme is “Field Implementation of...

The American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) has named Dr. Barry T. Rouse, a veterinarian and an immunologist in the Department of Biomedical and...

A tiny rodent trims tall grasses so it can watch the skies for flying predators, new research shows.Credit: Guoliang Li A tiny rodent trims tall...

Bilal Haider is studying how multiple areas of the brain work together for visual perception.  This could help researchers understand if neural activity “traffic jams”...