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Credit: Illustration © Jorge Blanco An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unrecognized genus of extinct horses that roamed North America during the...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Keeping messages brief and simple can produce gains when trying to encourage patients to complete a...

Credit: Images courtesy of Jianjun Cheng, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new shape-shifting polymer can target and kill Helicobacter pylori bacteria in the...

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...