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Credit: Photo by Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - The age of big data is here. Thanks to innovations in genetic sequencing technology, scientists can...

URBANA, Ill. - As mammals age, immune cells in the brain known as microglia become chronically inflamed. In this state, they produce chemicals known to...

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) Astrocytes--the star-shaped cells of our brain--are very busy. Their job description includes maintaining the blood-brain barrier, r..

A time-honoured theory into why conditions on Earth have remained stable enough for life to evolve over billions of years has been given a new,...

Ribosomes are among the most important molecular machines within the cell that hardly changed in the course of evolution. Their function is to read copies...

Credit: Giuliano Maselli Locosselli In an article published in the journal Environmental Pollution, Brazilian researchers showed that tree species Tipuana tipu have been successfully employed...

PULLMAN - Washington State University researchers have found that plastic products meant to replace the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, are also causing genetic abnormalities...

Credit: Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Consumers need to stop demanding shark fin soup and other products in the absence of robust laws and sustainable practices regulating...

Credit: Keegan Houser The Rockefeller University has announced that Jennifer Doudna will receive this year's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a major international accolade honoring outstanding...

Credit: Photo by T. Salvador, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ­- The most recent solar radiation data have been converted into a new map of Daily...

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have answered questions about the incidence and timing of rare but sometimes fatal reactions to the most widely prescribed class of...

Credit: © Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu SAN FRANCISCO (Sept 13, 2018) - The Exploratorium announced this week the launch of its new Global Climate Change Explorer, a...

CHAPEL HILL - Researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center estimate that screening for and treating prostate cancer in men aged...

Credit: Sharon Parmet. A three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago to...

Credit: Kevin Robertson TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A new study from Florida State University researchers indicates that common satellite imaging technologies have vastly underestimated the number...