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ATLANTA–Hearing socially meaningful sounds can change the ear and enable it to better detect those sounds, according to researchers at Georgia State University who studied...

Credit: Imin Kamin Established as early as 1900, Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve (BNFR) is the oldest of its kind in Malaysia, offering a biodiversity- rich...

Credit: Patrick Mansell Eating almonds on a regular basis may help boost levels of HDL cholesterol while simultaneously improving the way it removes cholesterol from...

Credit: IIGB, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Katayoon Dehesh, the director of the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB) and the Ernst and Helen Leibacher...

Credit: LI Lei Alternative splicing significantly expands the form and function of the genome of organisms with limited gene number and is especially important for...

Credit: SBP Orlando, FL, Aug. 10, 2017 ­- A team of researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) at Lake Nona, Fla. and...

LUGANO-MADRID, Sept. 3, 2017 – Even small tumours can be aggressive, according to a study in patients with early stage breast cancer that will be...

Credit: Katherine Verbist, Ph.D., St. Jude The fates of immune cells can be decided at the initial division of a cell. Researchers at St. Jude...

Credit: Knight Cancer Institute DALLAS – Aug. 15, 2017 ­- Sunbathers may want to avoid midnight snacks before catching some rays. A study in mice...

Credit: Jolle W. Jolles New research sheds light on how “animal personalities” – inter-individual differences in animal behaviour – can drive the collective behaviour and...

Will we ever be able to understand the cacophonous chatter taking place between the 80 million neurons in our brains? Dr. Ofer Yizhar and his...

Credit: Cali Turner Tomaszewicz Populations of green sea turtles living in the eastern region of the Pacific Ocean have rebounded in recent years, but their...

A new statistical model has enabled researchers to pinpoint 27 novel genes thought to prevent cancer from forming, in an analysis of over 2000 tumours...

Credit: Jacqueline Gerson, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. — A Duke University-led study has found dangerously high levels of mercury and its more toxic chemical cousin,...

Credit: NIAID National Institutes of Health scientists developing a rapid, practical test for the early diagnosis of prion diseases have modified the assay to offer...