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Fingers are a human's most important tactile sensors, but they do not always sense accurately and can even be deceived. Researchers at the Cluster of...

Credit: Diana Passaro Drugs developed to treat heart and blood vessel problems could be used in combination with chemotherapy to treat an aggressive form of...

Credit: Photo: Lars Maltha Rasmussen It looks like a spooky suicide when small, fluffy guillemot chicks leap from the cliffs and fall several hundred metres...

Chromosome is a structure inside the cell nucleus that carries a large part of the genetic information and is responsible for its storage, transfer and...

Credit: Children's National Health System Readmission rates at three months for kids hospitalized for acute asthma dropped when families received comprehensive education prior to discharge,...

Credit: University of Leeds Scientists are using the latest imaging techniques usually used to map the brain to try and understand why some pregnant women...

Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Ed Gates FROSTBURG, MD (March 17, 2016) — Wind energy is a growing alternative to reduce greenhouse gas...

Normally, cells are highly active and dynamic: in their liquid interior, called the cytoplasm, countless metabolic processes occur in parallel, proteins and particles jiggle around...

Credit: Mills laboratory Patients with a rare, genetic form of diabetes often are misdiagnosed as having type 2 diabetes because the two share symptoms. But...

The likelihood that you will be swallowing a capsule robot in the near future has just jumped up dramatically. A team of engineers at Vanderbilt...

Credit: WCS Washington, DC, April 19, 2017 – The following statement was issued today by Wildlife Conservation Society President and CEO Cristian Samper on the...

Credit: photo/©: Florian Menzel, JGU The bodies of ants and other insects are covered with a thin, wax-like layer that protects them from desiccation and...

LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 – Body fat distribution in the trunk is more important than body weight when it comes to cancer risk in postmenopausal...

Credit: University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Before leaving the hospital after childbirth, more women are opting to...

Credit: © Pablo Guardado-Calvo, Institut Pasteur Rift Valley fever virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, is responsible for outbreaks in livestock in Africa and can also be...