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Credit: Felipe Franca More than 403 million hectares of tropical forests worldwide have been earmarked for timber concessions with selective logging a common economic activity....

Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have revealed the molecular events..

Credit: M. Froehlich / Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Human communication is one of the most sophisticated signalling systems, being highly cooperative and including fast...

Credit: The Cooper Institute Rochester, MN, November 17, 2017 – Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of death for men in the U.S....

Credit: Creative Commons Zero () license Tohoku University researchers have found that trans-fatty acids promote cell death in a more direct manner than previously thought,...

Princeton University researchers have captured among the first recordings of neural activity in nearly the entire brain of a free-moving animal. The three-dimensional recordings could...

While there are no cures for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, many researchers believe that one could be found in neural stem cells....

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Two factors–metabolism and gut microbes – have been credited by researchers as key players in the fight against obesity. However, there is...

Stem cells sustain the capacity of self-renewal and differentiation into specialized cells, offering exciting promises in both basic and applied research. As an example of...

Credit: Svein Olav Bratlie/University of Gothenburg New ways of using mechanisms behind certain blood pressure medications may in the future spare some patient groups both...

Credit: Ullas Karanth/WCS A new book co-edited by tiger biologist Dr. Ullas Karanth of (WCS) Wildlife Conservation Society and Dr. James Nichols, an Emeritus statistical...

Credit: VIIBRE, Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University researchers has received a two-year, $2-million federal grant to develop an "organ-on-chip" model for two...

A new study from The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa is poised to completely change our understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and pave...

Credit: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ethnic restaurants like to brag about how "authentic" they are. But when it comes to the language on...

Women's cognitive functioning past middle age may be affected by the degree of gender equality in the country they live in, according to new findings...