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Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified antibodies capable of protecting against Zika virus infection, a significant step toward developing...

Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school. The organism is often used...

Credit: University of Notre Dame/Barbara Johnson Chemical engineers at the University of Notre Dame have discovered a catalytic process that could help curb emissions of...

New Rochelle, NY, March 1, 2016–Regulation of the emerging areas of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM) is one of the key barriers to commercial...

Credit: Charles Davies; Flickr Although Charles Darwin lived and worked in the 19th century, modern evolutionary biologists are far from exhausting all avenues of inquiry...

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Oct. 24, 2016 – A family of small RNA molecules affects the development of cells that give rise...

Credit: Associate Professor Tokio Tani When cells divide, chromosomes need to be evenly segregated between daughter cells. This equal distribution of chromosomes is very important...

Credit: Cristina Nadalutti and Jack Griffith EAST LANSING, Mich. – Providing answers — or at least more information — to the most difficult medical questions...

Credit: Morgan Beeby/Imperial College London Using detailed 3D images, researchers have shown how bacteria have evolved molecular motors of different powers to optimize their swimming....

Two U.S. Forest Service experimental forests have been chosen to participate in the U.S,-China Climate Change and Forests Initiative, a program of the U.S.-China Climate...

Credit: Source: IPC PAS An electrode brought to the surface of a liquid that contains microparticles can be used to pull out surprisingly long chains...

Credit: Paul Kruszka, et al. Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and their collaborators, have...

Credit: WCS/Panthera Jakarta, Indonesia (Oct. 23, 2017) – A new scientific publication from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park Authority...

Lack of sleep has previously been found to impact the activation of the immune system, inflammation, carbohydrate metabolism and the hormones that regulate appetite. Now...

Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Researchers at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) in Japan have designed a small 'body-on-a-chip' device that can..