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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...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, USA (Aug. 5, 2016) — Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio are providing basic new understanding...

Credit: UW-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center All living cells are basically squishy balloons full of water, proteins and DNA, surrounded by oily membranes....

Credit: Photo courtesy of the Kawaoka lab, UW-Madison Scientists have identified a set of biomarkers that indicate which patients infected with the Ebola virus are...

Credit: Sinc Spanish researchers have estimated the duration of solar radiation exposure required in order to obtain the recommended doses of vitamin D. While in...

Obese mice are much more likely than lean mice to overeat in the presence of environmental cues, a behavior that could be related to changes...

ATLANTA–Andrew Gewirtz, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a four-year, $1.8-million federal grant to study how changes...

LSU researchers Jeremy M. Brown and Eric N. Rittmeyer, in collaboration with colleagues at Florida State University, are shedding light on how often and where...

Credit: Courtesy Kristen Tummeltshammer PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Just six months into the world, babies already have the capacity to learn, remember and use contextual cues...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – In a study of children with brain shunts at Children's of Alabama, a University of Alabama at Birmingham investigational biomarker outperformed the...

There's an ancient group of algae that evolved in the world's oceans before our backboned ancestors crawled onto land. They are so numerous that their...

Credit: Hokkaido University Large, physically strong Masu salmon disperse farther when infected with parasites, potentially escaping from further infections at the contaminated site but ironically...

Credit: UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences Touch is the first of the five senses to develop, yet scientists know far less about the...

Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Michael Pulsipher, MD, of the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles has been awarded...

Publication in Genes & Development: researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB develop new techniques to assess the fate of stem cells in vivo....