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Credit: Figure: Hannes Neuweiler/Universität Würzburg They are lightweight, almost invisible, highly extensible and strong, and of course biodegradable: the threads spiders use to build their...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 7, 2018--The placenta offers an abundant source of placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells (pMSCs), which a...

Credit: Cambridge University Library The first book to take in 3,000 years of baby-making shows how women functioned as "vessels" in early ideas of creation,...

Credit: Dirk Becker Jasmonic acid is not just the aromatic odor of the plant Jasminum grandiflorum used in cosmetics and perfume industries. Plants wounded by...

Credit: Department of Nephrology,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Chronic kidney disease (CKD), an affliction characterized by progressive loss of kidney function, affects millions of people worldwide...

Helping mothers quit smoking should still be primary goalCredit: ATS Dec. 7, 2018--Vitamin C may reduce the harm done to lungs in infants born to...

Credit: © Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today announced the release of "RNA Worlds:...

University of Arizona-led research into 5G networks allows for remote surgery, autonomous vehicles and ever-faster processing speedsCredit: University of Arizona If you have a cellphone,...

Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - A 3D-printed glucose biosensor for use in wearable monitors has been created by Washington State University researchers. The work could...

Researchers receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to capture vital signs via videoCredit: Penn State As biometric systems -- technologies which measure...

Credit: Purdue University image/Brett Savoie WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The chemical element that makes up most of today's batteries, lithium, may soon be challenged by...

Credit: VCU Virginia Commonwealth University researchers are testing a vaccine against opioid abuse developed by the Scripps Research Institute in California. The vaccine is meant...

Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Organ procurement teams are sometimes leery of accepting kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury (AKI), fearing they will harm...

Genome of blue-fronted Amazon parrot compared with 30 other long-lived birdsCredit: Glaucia Seixas PITTSBURGH--Parrots are famously talkative, and a blue-fronted Amazon parrot named Moises -...

Credit: Photo by David Grémillet. Industrial fisheries are starving seabirds like penguins and terns by competing for the same prey sources, new research from the...