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Credit: National Cancer Institute Researchers at the University of Maryland and Duke University have designed a novel protein-sugar vaccine candidate that, in an animal model,...

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital have discerned that different tissue functions arise from a core biological machinery that is largely shared across tissues, rather...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Brazil, report that the Zika virus...

Obesity and high blood pressure frequently coexist in the same individual and are recognised as the main cardiovascular risk factor. The prevalence of hypertension, defined...

Credit: Jingbo Kan Most of our knowledge of bacteria comes from the study of bacteria swimming around in liquid but there is a growing consensus...

Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases. Even in normal cells, such deposits can accumulate in mitochondria, blocking energy production, but a newly...

The populations found in the Americas of Plasmodium vivax, one of the main human malaria parasites, are as genetically diverse as those found in Southeast...

Credit: Ines Bravo, IGC. The occurrence of emotions in animals has been under debate. Now, a research team from the Centro de Ciências do Mar...

Credit: Caterina Cambuli An international team of researchers led by the University of Adelaide has published the full genome of the water buffalo - opening...

Credit: Sampsa Vanhatalo Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Hospital (HUH), Finland, have developed software based on machine learning, which can...

Credit: Weisi Song, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University When pushing the boundaries of discovery, sometimes even the most experienced of scientists can get a surprise...

Credit: Irit Hacmun, Tel Aviv Targeted motor and sensory reinnervation (TMSR) is a surgical procedure on patients with amputations that reroutes residual limb nerves towards...

Credit: University of Southampton They account for just three per cent of the Earth's surface but play a major role in offsetting carbon dioxide emissions...

Alexandre Buttler, head of EPFL's Ecological Systems Laboratory (ECOS), and Luca Bragazza, a scientist at ECOS, along with a team of European researchers including two...

Credit: Dan Bebber National parks and nature reserves in South America, Africa and Asia, created to protect wildlife, heritage sites and the territory of indigenous...