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Credit: University of Bradford A commonly-used anti-psychotic drug could also be effective against triple negative breast cancer, the form of the disease that is most...

Credit: RUB, Kramer How the light-sensitive part of the biomolecule phytochrome changes from a light-adapted state to a dark-adapted state has been investigated by researchers...

Credit: Lars G. Crabo A newly-recognized species of owlet moth recently discovered to inhabit high-elevation mountains in western North America was named after the Greek...

Credit: Christopher Pull Ants are neat: when they move into a new nest box, they spend the first days cleaning it thoroughly, like us humans...

Credit: Oscar Sanisidro / ICP The oldest flying squirrel fossil ever found has unearthed new insight on the origin and evolution of these airborne animals....

Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations scientific and intergovernmental body, published the summary for policymakers of its Global Warming of...

Credit: SUTD Malaria is the most prevalent blood-borne infectious disease caused by parasites of the species Plasmodium. In 2016, more than 216 million malaria infections...

Credit: (c) 2018 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 9, 2018--More than 20% of women aged 50-64 years and those aged 65-74...

Credit: Mikko Tiusanen Mikko Tiusanen, MSc, investigated in his doctoral dissertation the structure and functioning of plants and their pollinators in Arctic regions. "Up north,...

Climate change's effect on coastal ecosystems is very likely to increase mortality risks of adult oyster populations in the next 20 years. That is the...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Many breast cancer drugs block estrogen receptors inside cancer cells. Blocking the receptors early in disease progression...

Credit: Microbiology Concepts (http://microbiologyconcepts.blogspot.com/2017/03/bacteria.html) To fight your enemies, it helps to know their weaknesses. And, the more specific your knowledge, the ea..

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Our cognitive abilities come down to how well the connections, or synapses, between our brain cells transmit signals. A new study by researchers at MIT's...

BROOKLYN, New York, Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - Spurred by the rapidly expanding use of in-home tests for "omic" - genomic and microbiomic - data...