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DNA, the carrier of genetic information, has become established as a highly useful building material in nanotechnology. One requirement in many applications is the controlled,...

Credit: Reingard Roßberg / IGB So much for survival of the fittest - diversity is the key: a team of researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of...

Credit: Shifra Goldenberg/ Save the Elephants and Colorado State University Young elephants who have lost either their mothers or the matriarchs of their herd are...

A new Tel Aviv University study identifies a previously unknown mechanism involved in the development of Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The...

Credit: © AMNH/S. Galen A new study led by the American Museum of Natural History puts forth the most comprehensive tree of life for malaria...

Credit: PHOTO CREDIT Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth Addressing a critical issue for people with a genetic disorder called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), doctors at The University...

Paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Johannes Vermeer have been delighting art lovers for years. But it turns out that these works of...

Credit: Les Laboratoires Servier, courtesy of Servier Medical Art (), reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 France (CC BY 3.0 FR) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/f..

DAVIS, CA, May 23, 2018 - One of the largest studies to date on nuts and diabetes was published today in Diabetologia*, the journal of...

Clear, plastic aligners have been growing in popularity as alternatives to bulky, metal braces. And once the teeth are straightened, patients graduate to plastic retainers...

Not long ago, cannabis growers learned their trade mainly by trial and error, passing along tips to others behind a veil of secrecy. But with...

Over the last 30 years, 50% of the world's coral reefs have suffered significant damage due to climate change and acidification with the last three...

Credit: © Tianjin University A synthetic biology team at Tianjin University (TJU) has reported new methods and strategies for genome rearrangement and accelerated the evolution...

Credit: KAIST A metabolic research group at KAIST and Chung-Ang University in Korea has developed a recombinant E. coli strain that biosynthesizes 60 different nanomaterials...

Credit: Image by Advances in Atmospheric Sciences A collaborative research team from China has published a new analysis that shows the Earth's climate would increase...