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Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 20, 2017 — Whether you sop it up with bread or use it to boost your cooking, olive...

Credit: Artwork: Christian D. Peikert Mitochondria, best known for their role as powerhouses of eukaryotic cells, fulfill numerous vital functions. Knowledge about the precise protein...

Credit: Brian Smithers/UC Davis Bristlecone pine and limber pine trees in the Great Basin region are like two very gnarled, old men in a slow-motion...

A new international collaboration has received a £2 million award to fund research into combatting the rising numbers of deaths in rural South Asia caused...

Credit: Miao-Hsueh Chen, Baylor College of Medicine When it gets cold around you, your body turns up the heat to maintain its normal temperature. The...

Credit: Dan Jaffe/University of Washington Bothell An unusually warm patch of seawater off the West Coast in late 2014 and 2015, nicknamed "the blob," had...

Credit: Irfan J. Lodhi There's good fat and bad fat in our bodies. The good fat helps burn calories, while the bad fat hoards calories,...

This news release is available in French. Montreal, Nov. 19, 2015 – A new injectable 'biogel' is effective in delivering anti-cancer agents directly into cancerous...

Credit: Pixabay Carbon nanotubes exhibit interesting characteristics rendering them particularly suited to the construction of special hybrid devices – consisting of biological issue and synthetic...

Credit: UT Arlington Kytai Nguyen, a nationally recognized professor of bioengineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, endured many challenges as a young girl...

Credit: Jan Wieringa, Naturalis Biodiversity Center Identifying critical areas for global biodiversity is an important step when prioritising areas for conservation, and generating biodiversity hotsp..

Credit: Image courtesy of Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that cancer cells appear to communicate to other cancer cells,...

Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES – Imagine yourself relaxing at the beach when the worst happens — someone notices a boy in trouble in...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A major national effort to expand the reach of cancer immunotherapy to benefit more patients will draw upon the expertise...

GALVESTON, Texas – In a normal full-term pregnancy, signals from the mature organs of the fetus and the aging placental membranes and placenta prompt the...