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Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Health System A young scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has received a prestigious grant to determine...

Credit: PLOS Medicine The results of a recent Nordic collaboration study showed that there is no difference in functional results between operative and non-operative treatment...

Andrea Vasconsuelo's new book explains how steroid hormones have a role to play in age-related changes that trigger apoptosis Sarcopenia, the progressive loss of muscle...

Credit: Sean Mattson/Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Forests in Darien, an eastern province of Panama, are crucial for carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and the livelihoods of...

Chromosomal deletion connected to both schizophrenia + autism A survey of 93 people with 3q29 deletion syndrome reveals a distinct pattern of social disability and...

Credit: Lucie Rigaill Many human cultures associate the colour red with sexuality and fertility. Among nonhuman primates too, red skin coloration is thought to contribute...

New platform allows effective drug screeningCredit: Diana Chapela, iMM A research team led by Leonor Saúde, Principal Investigator at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM; Lisbon,...

Sustainable land management key to reducing Amazon wildfires, study shows The unrelenting deforestation of the Amazon region could lead to a dramatic increase to the...

Japanese study finds convincing evidence that hearing loss in older people is associated with restriction of outdoor activities, anxiety, and memory lossCredit: University of Tsukuba...

New research is first to show damage caused to plantsCredit: Jaime Da Silva Carvalho, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) New research has discovered that cigarette butts...

More than half of our genome consists of transposons, DNA sequences that are reminiscent of ancient, extinct viruses. Transposons are normally silenced by a process known as...

The authors assert that cesarean section carries an independent risk in multiple birthsCredit: University of Malaga A research team of the University of Malaga (UMA)...

Computer simulations using models based on real-world atomic structures from microscope observations shed new light on the reaction pathways in fuel cellsCredit: Michihisa Koyama, Kyushu...

Credit: Domae M. et al., Neuroscience Letters, June 8, 2019 Many nocturnal animals including insects use a species-specific smell, that is sex a pheromone, to...

Credit: Chi P. Ting Microbes are master chefs of the biomolecular world; collectively, they harbor the ability to produce a vast array of unknown substances,...