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Transgenic tobacco plants engineered with synthetic metabolic pathways designed to bypass the inefficient and costly side effects of natural photorespiration show large increases in productivity...

Mining operations in Appalachia permanently alter habitat availability for rattlesnakesCredit: Photo courtesy of Thomas Maigret. On the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Kentucky, surface coal mining...

Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Surgeons at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are the first in the U.S. to implant...

In the 1960s, doctors began screening newborns for a metabolic condition called phenylketonuria (PKU). Since then, dozens of other diseases have been added to the...

While a sudden coughing fit is a protective reflex to clear the airway, chronic cough can be caused by multiple factors that must be investigated...

Credit: Jim Oldfield Researchers at the University of Toronto and UC San Francisco have discovered that the intestine is the source of immune cells that...

Computer program can translate a free-form 2-D drawing into a DNA structure Researchers at MIT and Arizona State University have designed a computer program that...

Consumption of one egg every day seems to associate with a blood metabolite profile that is related to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes,...

Rice, Duke researchers define a small protein's central role in tumor mechanicsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University A jagged little protein appears to be key to how...

Exposure to chemical and biological attacks more rapidly determinedCredit: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When people are in the early stages of...

Credit: Katy Robertson With their small size, stubby faces and wide-set eyes, bulldogs, French bulldogs and Boston terriers are among the most popular of domestic...

Credit: National Institutes of Health Writing in the January 3 issue of Cancer Cell, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report...

A giant toadstool that swallow up vitamins and nutrients. This is how the receptor, which e.g. absorbs B12 vitamin, looks. For the first time, researchers...

January 3, 2019 - A growing body of evidence supports the effectiveness of botulinum toxin injections in reducing the frequency of chronic migraine headaches, concludes...

Tel Aviv University report is first to assess presence of plastic additives in Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea marine life A new Tel Aviv University...