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AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 8, 2022) – Insufficient oxygen to an area like the heart or legs, called hypoxia, is a cue to our bodies to make...

Embargoed until Tuesday, March 8 at 3.05 am US Eastern Time, 7.05 pm Australian AEDTCredit: iStock / Getty Images Dr_Microbe Embargoed until Tuesday, March 8...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from HSE University and York University have presented an extensive dataset of indices derived from ultrasonography scans of three major arteries...

Microglia, the immune cells of the brain, are known for eating up unwanted items like germs and debris, much as their counterparts do in the...

Within the 50,000 known species of spiders about 20 have developed a permanent social life characterised by a remarkable cooperation1. Among these, one or two...

What if you were told there was a completely natural way to stop your body from aging? The trick: You’d have to hibernate from September...

Only two species of cetaceans (dolphins, whales, and porpoises), prey on other marine mammals: the true killer whale, or orca, and the false killer whale,...

LA JOLLA—(March 07, 2022) How does an animal make decisions? Scientists have spent decades trying to answer this question by focusing on the cells and...

LA JOLLA—(March 7, 2022) Age may be just a number, but it’s a number that often carries unwanted side effects, from brittle bones and weaker...

When exposed to stress, bacteria allow their metabolism to take a break during which they suppress, for example, the incorporation of proteins into membranes. Scientists...

RBPs (RNA-binding proteins) are a diverse category of proteins that are required for a wide range of cell activities. It's worth noting that they perform...

Cell division ensures growth or renewal and is thus vital for all organisms. However, the process differs somewhat in animals, bacteria, fungi, plants, and algae....

Inflammation of the middle ear is often triggered a cholesteatoma, an aggressive form of chronic otitis media. In order to detect cholesteatomas and bacterial biofilms...

The number of hares in a forest is a good indicator of how healthy that ecosystem is — and now there’s a better way to...

Robert Gourdie, a trailblazing cardiovascular scientist at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, is the first Virginia Tech researcher to receive an Outstanding Investigator Award...