Credit: Elizabeth Waters New research, published today in Botany, investigates how well native California wild mustard species withstand increasing temperatures with the goal of developing...
Credit: Alex Seymour, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. — Scientists have long known that marine animals mistakenly eat plastic debris because the tiny bits of floating...
Credit: Case Western Reserve University National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and collaborators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have detected abnormal prion...
Credit: CSU Photography Wildlife disease experts at Colorado State University are investigating whether a test developed to detect early-stage chronic wasting disease in deer might...
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Dec. 22, 2016 – Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered the mechanism that cells use to...
Credit: Miljan Simonovic. Humans need eight essential trace elements for good health, and one of them is selenium – a powerful antioxidant that is important...
Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan — Maintaining a good balance of iron in the body is necessary for health: too little can lead to anemia,...
Credit: Russell Fletcher & John Ngai, UC Berkeley Adult stem cells have the ability to transform into many types of cells, but tracing the path...
Credit: Julius Csotonyi New research from University of Alberta paleontologists shows one of North America's most broadly identified dinosaur species, Troodon formosus, is no longer...
Credit: Gary Kramer/USFWS (public domain) Mallards — the familiar green-headed ducks of city parks — are one of a group of closely related waterfowl species,...
Credit: Dr Graham Beards Bacteriophages, known informally as phages, are viruses that can attack and kill specific bacteria. They occur everywhere in the natural world....
Army medical research funding has supported the development of innovative technologies to assist injured Service members and improve their quality of life. For example, advances...
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (October 30, 2017) … Each year, the United States suffers an extreme shortage of organ donations, with only a...
Credit: Bioinformatics Russian scientists have created an interactive world map of human gut microbiota potential to resist antibiotics (resistome). Their ResistoMap will help identify national...
Toronto, Canada — A pair of new studies further strengthen scientific understanding of the links between what a child experiences in the first years of...
