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Chapel Hill, NC – A better understanding of HIV latency is the key to eradicating the virus researchers at the University of North Carolina and...

AMHERST, Mass. – Forty years of unrest in Afghanistan left wildlife ecologists uncertain whether one of the region's rare sub-species of red deer, the Bactrian...

Credit: Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology that enables a smartphone to...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel…December 21, 2015 – "Look both ways before you cross the street" may be sage advice, but it is also apparently necessary for children...

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...

Credit: Miki Shinohara An international collaboration between Osaka University and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Switzerland is investigating the repair process...

Credit: Jennifer E. Fairman/Johns Hopkins University Scientists at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, the University of Trento in Italy, and Harvard Medical School report they have developed...

This news release is available in German. Research efforts on the intestine have increased in recent years. Owing to its enormous surface area – comparable...

Credit: GU FRANKFURT. Not only humans but also each of their body cells must watch their fat balance. Fats perform highly specialised functions, especially in...

Credit: CDC A new approach to information gathering could allow scientists to quickly identify the most effective way to manage a disease outbreak, an advance...

Few experiences invoke as much anxiety as a call from your doctor saying “you need to come back for more tests.” Your imagination goes wild...

Credit: Stephanie Krüger / MLU The bigger the male, the higher his chances to successfully mate – this applies, at least, to thrips, insects measuring...

Credit: Associate Professor Kunimasa Ohta In 2012, a Japanese research group discovered that human skin cells acquire pluripotency when introduced to lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus...

Credit: The specimen was prepared and imaged by Rosmarie Suetterlin and Cora-Ann Schoenenberger at the Maurice E. Muller Institute for Structural Biology (Ueli Aebi, head),...

Credit: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine Certain white blood cells play an important role in bringing a harmful virus under control after kidney transplantations....