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Two University of Houston researchers are developing a type of spectroscopy to help understand how ribosomes make proteins deep within cells, the discovery of which...

Today’s forests face a litany of threats that are being exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change: drought, heat, fires, and pest and pathogen outbreaks. Meanwhile, understanding...

It’s common to say that someone looks either younger or older than their chronological age, but aging is more than skin deep. Our various organs...

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Yale shows that the oldest ancestors of the group of animals that...

Sepsis is a high-mortality disease that arises when the body’s immune reaction to pathogens causes multi-organ defects. Although infection-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines are indispensable for pathogen...

In the brain, neurons and astrocytes work together to process information and enable complex behavior and cognitive abilities. Astrocytes have many functions like controlling the...

Scientists have shed new light on the role of the placenta in managing the relationships between maternal vitamin D and foetal development, according to a...