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RICHLAND, Wash. – Microbes in soil – organisms that exert enormous influence over our planet's carbon cycle – may not be as adaptable to climate...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – One goal in neurobiology is to understand how the flow of electrical signals through brain circuits gives rise to perception,...

London, UK, May 23, 2016 – The spread of yellow fever (YF) is a global health threat. In response to current outbreaks in Angola, other...

Credit: The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (November 2017)–Mango fruits play host to some economically damaging fungal diseases, especially during ripening and storage; but...

Credit: Kent Nishimura Margaret McFall-Ngai, professor and director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, at the University...

Using solar or wind power to produce carbon-based fuels, which are commonly called fossil fuels, might seem like a self-defeating approach to making a greener...

Credits: American Heart Association Ablation of atrial fibrillation improves quality of life more than drugs, even though the reduction in atrial fibrillation burden did not...

COLLEGE STATION — A team of researchers who two years ago announced a "Trojan horse" method of entering a cell without harming it have now...

Credit: MSU photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN – Data from the U.S. Bureau of Statistics and United States Department of Agriculture show while women constitute...

Credit: Osaka University Osaka University researchers identify class of chemicals that can combat resistant strains of the hepatitis C virus, as well as parasites that...

Credit: J. Auwerx/EPFL Most complex diseases, such as obesity, longevity, and diabetes, are largely influenced by genetic factors. But at the same time, they are...

ATLANTA–Ivaylo Ivanov, associate professor of chemistry at Georgia State University, has received a five-year, $1.675 million federal grant to study how problems with DNA replication...

Credit: Courtesy of Jennifer Hampton Hill EUGENE, Ore. — Dec. 13, 2016 — A newly discovered bacterial protein produced in the zebrafish gut triggers insulin-producing...

Credit: Photo by Ray Davis EAST LANSING, Mich. – Barred owls – unrivaled nocturnal predators and procreators – are moving into the Pacific Northwest. They're...

Credit: Drawing by Davide Bonadonna. A whopping two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, Earth was crawling with bizarre animals, including dinosaur cousins resembling Komodo...