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Credit: Andrea Miehls, USGS p>Unlike most animals, sea lampreys, an invasive, parasitic species of fish damaging the Great Lakes, could become male or female depending...

Credit: Professor Yuriko Yamagata Human MutT homolog 1 (hMTH1) protein acts as the primary enzyme for breaking down (hydrolyzing) damaged (oxidized) deoxynucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) the...

Credit: Kei Wada Osaka - Jaundice, marked by yellowing of the skin, is common in infants, but also a symptom of various adult diseases. This...

Credit: Kyoto University Drug discovery is in essence the designing of compounds to interact with disease-related proteins. And in many recent development efforts, this process...

Credit: IQOQI/Harald Ritsch Nowadays we communicate via radio signals and send electrical pulses through long cables. This could change soon, however: Scientists have been working...

Credit: Riley Brandt Radon gas is a colourless, odourless radioactive gas that has been linked to lung cancer. Now, University of Calgary, Cumming School of...

Credit: Credit: Nan Yang, Jesse L. Silverberg. Inspired by the fun of playing with Legos, an international team of researchers from Tianjin University of Technology...

Credit: IDIBELL Recent research results from the TGF-beta and cancer research group at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), within IT-Liver, a collaborative European action...

Credit: Kathryn Faith A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ZEISS...

Credit: Virginia Tech Manure from cattle administered antibiotics drastically changes the bacterial and fungal make-up of surrounding soil, leading to ecosystem dysfunction, according to a...

Credit: Osaka Sangyo University / NAOJ A team led by researchers from Osaka Sangyo University, with members from Tohoku University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...

Credit: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian. For thousands of years, the Hawaiian petrel has soared over the Pacific Ocean, feeding on fish and squid. Now, using...

Credit: Curtis Horne Changes in the body size of animals measured under controlled laboratory conditions have been shown to closely match changes in body size...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland FES Center CLEVELAND--Bill Kochevar grabbed a mug of water, drew it to his lips and drank through the straw. His...

Credit: James Kremer A coordinated effort to understand plant microbiomes could boost plant health and agricultural productivity, according to a new Perspective publishing March 28...