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Credit: @John Soares BOSTON – (Nov. 29, 2017) – Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have taken another step toward solving a long-standing puzzle about heart...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Since 2015 artificially-intelligent systems surpassed human accuracy in many tasks including image recognition, voice recognition, autonomous driving and strategy games such..

ITHACA, NY — A protein that signals tissue damage to the human immune system has a counterpart that plays a similar role in plants, report...

Credit: MU Athletics Officials at collegiate sporting venues have been leading efforts toward zero-waste events with many professional and collegiate leagues adopting energy and water...

BLACKSBURG, Va., Nov. 11, 2015 – A professor in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment is launching a new project to enable scientists...

Credit: Photo by Mike Wolterbeek, University of Nevada, Reno RENO, Nev. – Restoration of rangelands in the Great Basin is taking a new direction as...

Credit: Photo by Erin Sparks, Duke University v DURHAM, N.C. — As a growing plant extends its roots into the soil, the new cells that...

TORONTO, July 27, 2016 – A team of Toronto scientists has found similarities in brain impairments in children with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity...

Credit: Rudolf Bryner An invasive leaf-mining moth, feeding on cornelian cherry, has been gradually expanding its distributional range from its native Central Europe northwards for...

Credit: Volkov et al., Science 2017 Optogenetics enables specific nerve cells to be turned on and off using special light-sensitive 'protein switches'. One of the...

Credit: Walter Dodds, Kansas State University LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas will partner with four other Kansas universities on a new project funded by...

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 12, 2016 – HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are among the leading causes of death worldwide, and an estimated one-third...

Credit: Rudolf Bryner An invasive leaf-mining moth, feeding on cornelian cherry, has been gradually expanding its distributional range from its native Central Europe northwards for...

Credit: Osaka University Osaka – Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are an emerging method for scientists to identify genes involved in human disease. GWAS searches the...

Credit: Brittany Sumner, Kalahari Research Centre Jamie Samson and Marta Manser from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental 1Studies at UZH studied colonies of...