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Starbons, made from waste biomass including food peelings and seaweed, were discovered and first reported 10 years ago by the York Green Chemistry Centre of...

Credit: Sahlgrenska Academy/University of Gothenburg After decades of increasing childhood obesity, things are now going in the opposite direction. A study from Sahlgrenska Academy shows...

Some nerve cells in the inner ear can signal tissue damage in a way similar to pain-sensing nerve cells in the body, according to new...

DALLAS – July 21 2016 – Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a new way that tuberculosis bacteria get into the body, revealing...

Credit: Credit: Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher This news release is available in Spanish. A team of scientists including a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) research associate announced...

Falling asleep and waking up are key transitions in everyone's day. Millions of people have trouble with these transitions – they find it hard to...

Credit: Justin Kelley, MU Health Coronary artery disease is caused by plaque buildup in the vessels that deliver blood to the heart. Narrowed or blocked...

This news release is available in German. Signalling processes in organisms are governed by specific extracellular and intracellular interactions and involve hundreds of different functionally...

This news release is available in German. The layman considers fossil beetles just stones. Even experts were able to describe the rough, outer shape of...

Credit: F. Glaw Many lizards can drop their tails when grabbed, but one group of geckos has gone to particularly extreme lengths to escape predation....

In the recent issue of EMBO reports, Barbara Han of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and John Drake of the University of Georgia Odum...

A team of researchers led by scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is looking at ways to improve how blood-forming stem cells can be...

Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study finds that viruses share some genes exclusively with cells that are not their hosts....

CLEMSON, South Carolina — A Clemson University psychology professor has published research revealing a positive link between mood, motivation and physical activity during work and...

Almost 8 percent of patients experience loss of at least one implant within ten years. Even more develop peri-implantitis. Patients with periodontitis run a greater...