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SEATTLE, December 2, 2021 -- Killer whales are intelligent, adaptive predators, often teaming up to take down larger prey. Continuous reduction in sea ice in...

CHAPEL HILL, NC—For the first time, researchers have determined, cell-by-cell, the genetic and epigenetic state of ovarian and endometrial tumors. Scientists at the University of...

New research from the University of Chicago points to microglia, key immune cells in the brain, as a key mediator in the relationship between the...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—December 2, 2021—At the earliest stages of a new human life, cells that seem identical begin to divide into distinct types that eventually...

In their publication in Science, Professor Guojun Sheng (Kumamoto University, Japan), Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain) and Professor Ann Sutherland (University of...

Pigtailed macaques are a candidate model organism for two hemorrhagic diseases of public health concern: Kyasanur Forest disease and Alkhurma hemorrhagic disease, report Rebecca Broeckel...

Anne S. Meyer, an associate professor of biology at the University of Rochester, and her collaborators at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, recently developed a 3D...

Moderate to vigorous physical activity is associated with risk reductions of non-communicable diseases and mortality. However, whether cardiovascular health status affects the relationship between physical...

The climate crisis is limiting the availability of krill —small crustaceans that are vital in the marine food chain— during summer in some areas of...

Being able to recapitulate in a dish what human embryos normally do hidden within the womb opens avenues for improving In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) procedures...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that two intense periods of volcanism triggered a period of global cooling and falling oxygen levels in...

A genetically encoded “live-cell” probe designed by researchers from Tokyo Tech has been able to identify phosphorylated Ser2 in the enzyme RNA polymerase II, subsequently...

For more than a decade, fertilizer leaching and associated stormwater runoff were thought to be the major drivers of harmful algal blooms in Florida’s Indian...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECredit: Photo courtesy of Emmanouil Tampakakis FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Human heart muscle cells cease to multiply after birth, making any heart injury later...

Italy is not exactly renown for dinosaurs. In comparison to its excellent artistic and archaeological heritage, dinosaur fossils are very rare. Not surprisingly, the discovery...