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Laboratories may consume large quantities of plastics, generate waste, and emit greenhouse gases. A report published in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation by Jane Kilcoyne and...

Farming Atlantic salmon requires a high volume of wild-caught fish as feed, but produces only a small percentage of the world’s farmed fish supply. A...

Drug misuse is not exclusive to the opioid epidemic, according to a recent West Virginia Universitystudy. Every year, about 50,000 people in the United States are...

An ambitious academic, clinical and industry research programme supported by a €5 million funding grant from Science Foundation Ireland, which will be leveraged with an...

A team of scientists used an emerging genetic tool that analyzes DNA in water samples to detect whales and dolphins in New York waters.Credit: Julie...

Neurons in the brain coexist with and rely on many other cell types to function properly. Astrocytes, which take their name from their star shape,...

The end of the Permian was characterized by the greatest mass extinction event in Earth’s history. 252 million years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions...

The prompt for the study came from MS patients: "We hear again and again from sufferers that they feel worse when they consume milk, cottage...

Intestinal cells can change specializations during their lives. The BMP signaling pathway – an important communication mechanism between cells – appears to be the driver...

A research team led by Prof. CHEN Di from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences along with other...

A new study has suggested that treatment to target necroptosis in muscle fibers using a necroptosis inhibitor lessens myositis-induced muscle weakness as well as muscle...

Disposable face masks could be harmful to wildlife, according to researchers who have observed harmful effects of the masks on keystone marine animals in coastal...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 1, 2022) — A ubiquitous protein called sigma 1 receptor, which is known to protect cells from stress, appears key to the...

Scientists from the Ryan Institute in NUI Galway have published the first record of a Noble False Widow spider feeding on a protected species of...

The only references we have for “life” are the forms we know on Earth. Astrobiologists suspect that the search for alien life, and even for...