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Credit: NYITCOM Scientists have long wondered how the horse evolved from an ancestor with five toes to the animal we know today. While it is...

Credit: Ercan et al., 2017 Boston Children's Hospital researchers have uncovered a new molecular pathway that inhibits the myelination of neurons in the brains of...

Credit: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America The difference between webbed toes and distinct digits may be the result of not...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – December 8, 2017. The job outlook remained positive for Americans with disabilities, with yet another month of gains...

Credit: Drew Kramer The majority of infectious diseases currently emerging as human epidemics originated in mammals. Yet we still know very little about the global...

Credit: William Fagan Humans modify natural landscapes in a variety of ways, from constructing expansive cityscapes to fencing off otherwise untouched rangeland. A new study,...

University of Melbourne scientists have shone a new light into the complexities of ant communication, with the discovery that ants not only pick up information...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer known for drug resistance and relapse. In an effort to uncover new...

Credit: Astrid Schnetzer In a new study, researchers from North Carolina State University found that a specific neurotoxin can persist and accumulate in "marine snow"...

Credit: Indiana University Center for Aging Research INDIANAPOLIS — More than 13 million older adults are admitted to hospitals annually in the United States. Nearly...

Credit: University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, Md., Nov. 14, 2017 – With a limited number of lungs available, deciding who gets a transplant...

Credit: The University of Queensland University of Queensland microbiologist Emeritus Professor John Fuerst has a new bacterial genus (a group of related organisms) named in...

"Best before", "usable at least until" and "expiry date" – those are the Danish shelf life labels used in connection with food. In 2012 a...

Credit: Kent State University The center of a public health debate is whether parents should have their children vaccinated. Tara Smith, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology...

Credit: N/A In efforts to develop new treatments for brain cancer, scientists from Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery and the Kimmel Cancer Center's Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for...