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Credit: Katherine Fedoroff. Fish warn each other about danger by releasing chemicals into the water as a signal, research by the University of Saskatchewan (USask)...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have demonstrated that the recently developed antidiabetic drug empagliflozin can treat and reverse the progression...

Unlike many migratory species, Galapagos giant tortoises do not use current environmental conditions to time their seasonal migrationCredit: Photo courtesy of Guillame Bastille-Rousseau. Galapagos giant...

After 170 years, nobody was quite sure where anesthesia worked on the brainCredit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- The discovery of general anesthesia 170 years...

Credit: Image courtesy of Rice University Elaborate molecular networks inside living cells enable them to sense and process many signals from the environment to perform...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 18, 2019--Gene therapy offers the promise of a cure for beta-thalassemia and a new study...

Thirty-person study of human perception suggests a 'middle ground' between opposing literatureCredit: Designed by Elina Stengård Human perception is based on mathematically optimal principles, but...

York University research shows species is critically endangered The American Bumblebee - a species once more commonly seen buzzing around Southern Ontario - is critically...

Synthetic biologists add tunable, analog-to-digital converter to their toolkitCredit: Rice University HOUSTON -- (April 18, 2019) -- Synthetic biologists have added high-precision analog-to-digital signal processing...

Mass. General team's findings may have application to treatment of cancer, neurodegenerative disorders Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have discovered the mechanism by which cells...

Bioethicists point to repercussions, and balance between saving lives and saving organsCredit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine The brain is more resilient than...

Berkeley Lab-led research team makes a chiral skyrmion crystal with electric properties; puts new spin on future information storage applicationsCredit: Xiaoxing Cheng, Pennsylvania State University;...

Credit: Kazuhito Sai, NC State University New North Carolina State University research shows that key proteins known for their ability to prevent viral infections by...

Biomedical researchers develop first open-source, quality-control review tool for fast-growing digital pathology field CLEVELAND--There's a low-tech problem troubling the high-tech world of digital pathology imaging....

System causes delayed mortality of mussel larvae and reduces mussel settlement by 88-99% in hydropower cooling systemsCredit: Alexander Stephens, Bureau of Reclamation The Bureau of...