(WASHINGTON, D.C.) March 11, 2016 — A biological process in the brains of zebra finches shows that the songbirds respond ...

Men with prostate cancer run the risk of brittle bones as a side-effect of their treatment. But one hour's football ...

Ocean acidification may well be helping invasive species of algae, jellyfish, crabs and shellfish to move to new areas of ...

R&D Magazine named the handheld single-cell pipette (hSCP), a Houston Methodist Research Institute invention, as one the 100 most innovative ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS , in collaboration with Imperial College London and the University of Vienna, ...

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In recent years, over 3% of births per year in developed countries have corresponded to children conceived through assisted reproduction ...

A new study, which followed 180 pre-term infants from birth to age seven, found that babies who were fed more ...

Credit: Heather F. Smith, Ph.D., Midwestern University Neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome (nTOS) is a common neurologic syndrome resulting in pain, ...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 31, 2017–Researchers studying the mechanism of action of the natural, ...

Credit: Alexandre Paix Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a streamlined method and accompanying efficiency "rules" for introducing new DNA sequences ...

Credit: MODIS/NASA In 1870, explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, trekking across the barren and remote ice cap of Greenland, saw something ...

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Credit: Osaka University In March 2017, the Cardiovascular Surgery Group at Osaka University successfully implanted a left ventricular assist device ...

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Credit: Chengfeng Merriman and Dax Fu/Johns Hopkins Medicine Gene variants associated with disease are typically considered faulty; problems arise when ...

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The bottle brush, with its long stalk and dense spray of plastic bristles, is the unsung hero of kitchens everywhere, ...

Heart failure is a common endpoint for many cardiovascular diseases. This syndrome is characterized by reduced cardiac output that leads ...

This news release is available in German. Stem cells have two important capabilities: they can develop into a wide range ...