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New insight on the origins and early evolution of echinoids, a group that includes the sea urchins, the sand dollars, and their relatives, has been...

Researchers at Rutgers University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and Cornell University are teaming up to examine how the processes that regulate gene...

Students’ identities can play a key role in how comfortable they feel and how often they speak up in the classroom, especially in STEM fields....

People who consume sugar and other carbohydrates in excess over a long period of time have an increased risk of developing an autoimmune disease. In...

Inside your body on the surface of cell membranes, a metaphorical communication and traffic network is underway as hormones - or chemical messengers - bind...

HOUSTON ― Neal G. Copeland, Ph.D., and Nancy A. Jenkins, Ph.D., both professors of Genetics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, have been...

Maize, or corn, is cultivated globally, as food, feedstock, and biofuel source, and is one of the most widely produced crops alongside wheat and rice....

A human immune system is a lot like the board game Mouse Trap: it’s a Rube Goldberg system of interacting parts. Only instead of a...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 22, 2022) – Deep in the brain a group of large neurons produce a hormone which prompts our bodies to hold onto more...

SAN DIEGO, March 22, 2022 — The colon might be the last place people would consider getting a tattoo, but endoscopic tattooing is an important...

It’s well understood that populations of species don’t distribute at random. Rather, as populations grow, individuals are organized around barriers in the landscape. This organization...

Researchers and artists from the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) and the University of Newcastle have collaborated to create a tool to help women who...

Suppose that we could watch twenty generations of whales or sharks adapting to climate change—measuring how they evolve and how their biology changes as temperatures...

The National Institutes of Health is awarding a $3.8 million grant to John Rossmeisl, the Dr. and Mrs. Dorsey Taylor Mahin Professor of Neurology and...

Have you ever wondered why it is so different how quickly and how much small babies put on weight during the first years of life?...