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Credit: Jose Cano Researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) have shown for the first time that ...

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Periodontitis, a gum disease present in nearly half of all adults in the United States, involves inflammation, bleeding and bone ...

Credit: F Quaid-i-Azam University Residents and workers in a major Pakistan city are exposed to harmful levels of pesticides, new ...

Credit: Pavel Stoev Five years of irrigated rice cultivation research reached its pinnacle at the Final LEGATO Conference, which took ...

Credit: Courtesy of Paula Niedenthal MADISON, Wis. — The smile may be the most common and flexible expression, used to ...

How do the cells in a human embryo know where they are located in the body and how they should ...

Credit: © 2016 Sargent et al. Malnourished children living in the same household who are given the same food to ...

University of Oklahoma Professor Joseph M. Suflita will receive a national award, the 2016 DuPont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied ...

Credit: Mia Persson The tendency of dogs to seek contact with their owners is associated with genetic variations in sensitivity ...

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IMAGE: Members of the UT Southwestern team whose research successfully halted progression of a form of muscular dystrophy in mice ...

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma College of Law student, Aaron L. Fournier, is the recipient of a ...

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

"The affected countries will have a major problem if we do not manage to control salmonella bloodstream infections with new ...