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The innate immune system plays a crucial role in regulating host-microbe interactions, and especially in providing protection against pathogens that invade the mucosa. Using an...

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) develop a hybrid technology to safely and effectively silence disease-causing genes in certain immune cells Credit: Department of...

Each year, pregnant female elephant seals take an approximately 240-day trek over 10,000 kilometers across the Eastern North Pacific Ocean before returning to their breeding...

Soon, people working sedentary jobs will be able to take advantage of the innovation created by Lithuanians and prevent troublesome back pain – a joint...

Inclusions in amber can preserve organisms' organs, tissues and cells in high fidelity, and are known as "exceptionally preserved" fossils.Credit: NIGPAS Inclusions in amber can...

The almost 11 cm high figurine from Willendorf is one of the most important examples of early art in Europe. It is made of a...

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed and tested a new imaging approach they say will accelerate imaging-based research in the lab by allowing investigators to...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have uncovered the mechanism by which osmolytes used to treat high fluid pressure in the eye and...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- As a clinician at the University of Missouri Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, David Beversdorf helps patients with autism spectrum...

In the field of scientific research, details matter. The minutia of processes and structures are explained with specificity, data points are reported to the most...

Networks are a system comprised of many components that interact with one another through a collection of connections, nodes and links. In a well-functioning brain,...

Scientists have long known that when people sleep, the brain performs memory magic.Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists have long known that when people sleep, the brain...

AMHERST, Mass. – An international team of researchers, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently announced in the journal Current Biology that an amoeba...

A joint research team at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the University of Florida describes the first non-invasive and near real-time visualization...

From Ecology:Credit: Nandintsetseg Dejid From Ecology: Itinerant gazelle travels 18,000 kilometers across Mongolian steppe Author contact: Nandintsetseg Dejid ([email protected]) In October 2014, researchers placed GPS...