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Normally, cells are highly active and dynamic: in their liquid interior, called the cytoplasm, countless metabolic processes occur in parallel, proteins and particles jiggle around...

Credit: Mills laboratory Patients with a rare, genetic form of diabetes often are misdiagnosed as having type 2 diabetes because the two share symptoms. But...

The likelihood that you will be swallowing a capsule robot in the near future has just jumped up dramatically. A team of engineers at Vanderbilt...

Credit: WCS Washington, DC, April 19, 2017 – The following statement was issued today by Wildlife Conservation Society President and CEO Cristian Samper on the...

Credit: photo/©: Florian Menzel, JGU The bodies of ants and other insects are covered with a thin, wax-like layer that protects them from desiccation and...

LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 – Body fat distribution in the trunk is more important than body weight when it comes to cancer risk in postmenopausal...

Credit: University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Before leaving the hospital after childbirth, more women are opting to...

Credit: © Pablo Guardado-Calvo, Institut Pasteur Rift Valley fever virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, is responsible for outbreaks in livestock in Africa and can also be...

Professor Derya Unutmaz, M.D., of The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, will receive five years of funding — totaling $3,281,515 from the National Institute of...

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the Wellcome Genome Campus have launched a new project to explore global public attitudes and beliefs...

Nagoya, Japan – RaQualia Pharma Inc. and the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University have announced a joint research agreement for the discovery...

Credit: Harald Schillhammer With social networks abound, it is no wonder that there is an online space where almost anyone can upload a photo and...

Credit: University of British Columbia Two birds that look the same, but have songs so different they can't recognize each other, should be considered distinct...

Credit: UVA Health System The human genome is far more complex than thought, with genes functioning in an unexpected fashion that scientists have wrongly assumed...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have invented a new type of nanofilter that could reduce the energy needed to treat wastewater by up...