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Credit: Takahiro Arima In a milestone achievement for better understanding the development and function of the human placenta, scientists have derived and grown trophoblast stem...

Credit: Photo credit Adeline Bougouin. Ammonia gas packs quite the smelly punch. In small doses, it's what makes smelling salts so effective. But high levels...

Credit: KU Leuven Lab of Comparative Endocrinology – Joke Delbaere & Pieter Vancamp Thyroid hormones are very important for the development of the brain. And...

Credit: Ulf Sirborn Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have measured the absolute numbers of short, non-coding, RNA sequences in individual embryonic stem cells. The new method...

Credit: Image: Stuart Hay, ANU Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) and Heidelberg University in Germany have found an essential component in the DNA...

Credit: ATS Feb. 10, 2017–In the largest epidemiological study conducted in the developing world, researchers found that as exposures to fine particulate air pollution in...

Credit: Pixabay PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Persistent pain is common among the nearly 4 million Americans who arrive each year at hospital emergency departments (EDs) after...

A handful of tiny teeth found in Israel's Negev desert led an international team of researchers to describe a new species of rodent which has...

Credit: The Ji Lab/Baylor College of Medicine Understanding how the brain remembers can one day shed light on what went wrong when memory fails, such...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. Sept. 5, 2017. Kessler Foundation researchers have authored a new article that has implications for our understanding of the...

Credit: ©AMNH Several species of mammoth are thought to have roamed across the North American continent. A new study in the open-access journal Frontiers in...

IMAGE: The proposed model for the mechanism of making blood cells from hemangioblasts is shown. Credit: University of Tsukuba In 1917, Florence Sabin, the first...

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2016 shows that stem-like breast cancer cells secrete...

Credit: Helen Jarvie The quality of our rivers and lakes could be placed under pressure from harmful levels of soluble phosphorus, despite well-intended measures to...

Credit: University of Exeter Online computer games played by more than 30,000 people have helped scientists understand animal camouflage and colour vision. Researchers from the...