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Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan–Amines are vital in nature; for example, amino acids — the building blocks of proteins and thus fundamental to life —...

TORONTO, Sept. 1, 2016–Parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific region may be vulnerable to outbreaks of the Zika virus, including some of the world's most...

Athens, Ga. – Studies have shown that obese children tend to have more muscle, but recent University of Georgia research on the muscle and bone...

Credit: NIPR The decades-long tracking of flying birds reveals that body size and flight styles determine the scale of birds' migration, as predicted by the...

The search for planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy has revealed an extraordinary family of planets whose orbits are so carefully timed that they...

Credit: Rob Kozloff, for the University of Chicago Medicine A long-term study of nearly 3,000 adults, aged 57 to 85, found that those who could...

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Feb. 9, 2018 – Researchers at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute (CRI) at UT Southwestern have discovered...

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Feb. 9, 2018 – Combining ultrasound imaging with a blood test for high alpha fetoprotein (AFP) levels improves...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 8, 2017) – A protein that typically helps keep cells organized and on task becomes a tumor suppressor in...

Credit: GlycoNet (February 9, 2018 – EDMONTON) Two GlycoNet Investigators are using technology to better understand how sugars in the human body are connected to...

Credit: University of Leicester Air pollution can change the way bacteria behave and can change their potential to cause disease Interdisciplinary research discovers new mechanism...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Dec. 19, 2016) – Scientists are using "gene scissors" to cut off the code of a defective gene that results...

Credit: Pablo Ross / UC Davis For more than 35 years, scientists have tried to isolate embryonic stem cells in cows without much success. Under...

Credit: (c) Shaohua Dong The species was discovered in Myanmar in 2010 by Ngwe Lwin, a local scientist working for FFI. The following year, scientists...

Philadelphia, PA, April 27, 2016 – As we better understand the role food plays in our overall health and wellbeing, the closer the connection becomes...