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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...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. September 19, 2017. A recent article by MS researchers describes a new nonpharmacological approach to reduce cognitive fatigue, a...

Credit: Johannes Wiedersich / TUM A fundamental prerequisite for life on earth is the ability of living organisms to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Physicists...

Credit: Source: AG Meisinger Mitochondria are the cell's power stations; they transform the energy stored in nutrients so that cells can use it. If this...

Credit: University of British Columbia Cyclists should be riding at speeds between 12 and 20 kilometres per hour on city roads, while pedestrians should be...

Baltimore, Md. – June 15, 2016. It's hard to think of the typical muffin, often loaded with saturated fat and a high calorie count, as...

Credit: Children's Hospital Colorado Aurora, Colo. (Oct. 25, 2017) – As reported in the Journal of Perinatology, researchers from Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) rec..

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...