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Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2016 New Rochelle, NY, November 28, 2016–While frequency and duration of online social networking may have a negative effect...

Credit: UCLA Engineering If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb — or delicately handle an egg while cooking you an omelet —...

Credit: USZ Liver cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death and represents the fastest rising cancer worldwide. In most cases, the tumor develops in...

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON — Because obesity affects one in six U.S. children and adolescents, there is a pressing need to identify the...

EAST LANSING, Mich. – If Paul Simon were to write a song about the bacteria in Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment, or LTEE, it could...

In a "look-back" analysis of data stored on 130 patients with pancreatic cysts, scientists at Johns Hopkins have used gene-based tests and a fixed set...

Professor Keith Matthews, of the School of Biological Sciences New insight into sleeping sickness suggests communication between parasites that cause infection could affect the severity...

Credit: Cheng Tai-sing A study highlighting the challenges and opportunities of fishery management in China has just been released in a perspective piece "Opportunity for...

Credit: Courtesy Dr. Zhang BETHESDA, MD – Infection with Zika virus disrupts fetal brain development by interfering with the proliferation of human neural progenitor cells...

Credit: J. R. Hoyt Bat populations in some places in North America appear to have developed resistance to the deadly fungal disease known as white-nose...

Credit: Gonçalo M. Rosa A new strain of ranavirus is currently causing mass mortality in several species of amphibian in the Serra da Estrela, the...

Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Children in need of an organ transplant often wait longer than...

Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school. The organism is often used...

Credit: The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong is home to a dazzling diversity of over 250 butterfly species, many of which can be found...

Credit: Etienne Laliberté MONTREAL, Jan. 12, 2017 – Some of the Earth's ecosystems host a disproportionately high number of plant species, and infertile shrublands in...