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Credit: © A. Colden/Virginia Institute of Marine Science. We're all familiar with tipping points, when crossing what might seem a minor threshold can lead to...

Credit: Horng D. Ou, Salk Institute. Sixty-four years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick described the now-iconic double helix structure of DNA. In a new...

Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have discovered a way to make influenza visible to the naked eye,...

As world leaders convene in Washington, DC this week for the Climate Action 2016 summit, a new report by Maryland public health leaders, the Maryland...

Credit: NIAID An experimental treatment developed from cattle plasma for Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus infection shows broad potential, according to a small clinical...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Long before Zika virus made it a household word, the birth defect called microcephaly puzzled scientists and doctors — even as...

Australia's largest predator, the dingo, is resistant to one of the main threats to its survival as a species — changes to skull shape brought...

Credit: Keena Kareem, LSU The first 1.5 billion years of Earth's evolution is subject to considerable uncertainty due to the lack of any significant rock...

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

Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON – (Jan. 27, 2017) – Seventy-eight percent of employees at Houston hospitals are overweight or obese, according to a study by researchers...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 13, 2017–A study of all 3rd-5th grade youth in one U.S. county examined differences in...

Credit: (Patrick McGuire / UC Davis) Sequencing the bread wheat genome has long been considered an almost insurmountable task, due to its enormous size and...

New Rochelle, NY, June 16, 2016–Women with premenstrual symptoms (PMS) including mood swings, weight gain/bloating, and abdominal cramps/back pain have elevated levels of C-reactive protein...

Credit: Jerome Waldispuhl You may not think of yourself in this way – but in some ways your body is just a host for hundreds...

Credit: Kessler Foundation. East Hanover, NJ -Oct. 6, 2017. Americans with disabilities continue to close in on pre-recession employment levels with yet another month of...