Credit: NIAID, Flickr, CC BY Researchers successfully built a gene drive to reduce female fertility in the mosquito that spreads malaria, but mutations gradually arose...
"How many different cell types are there in a human body? And how do these differences develop? Nobody really knows," says Professor Stein Aerts from...
Credit: Copyright D. Johnson/VIMS. Just in time for Halloween, a new study reveals that pumpkin-colored zombies may be running rampant through your local salt marsh....
Key Takeaway: In 2008 New York City introduced a rule mandating calorie postings for chain restaurants that was intended to induce healthier choices by making...
Credit: John A. Downing Looks can be deceiving. Look at a hundred lakes in the agricultural heartland of the United States and you will likely...
Credit: (c) Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay, The University of Chicago and The Field Museum Horned Larks are cute little songbirds with white bellies and...
Credit: NASA Rutgers scientists have found an efficient way to enhance the nutritional value of corn - the world's largest commodity crop - by inserting...
Credit: Ning Qian/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have contributed to solving a paradox of perception, literally upending models of..
Credit: Courtesy of Ai et al. Neurons that enable honeybees to sense the waggle dance -- a form of symbolic communication used by female bees...
A neuroimaging study of two monkeys published in JNeurosci identifies a brain network that tracks the location of an object approaching the face and anticipates...
PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 9, 2017) -- Researchers at The Wistar Institute have uncovered new aspects of the three-dimensional organization of the genome, specifically how the...
Credit: Will (Yangxiaolu) Cao, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University have turned bacteria into the builders of useful devices by programming them...
Credit: Kevin Lim, Yong Chern Han, Cedric Ng Singapore, 9 October 2017 - Scientists from the Humphrey Oei Institute of Cancer Research, National Cancer Centre...
Credit: Roksana Pirzgalska, IGC The biological causes underlying obesity have been under intense scrutiny with studies suggesting a link between the nervous and the immune...
An international team of scientists have completed the 'atlas of life' - the first global review and map of every vertebrate on Earth. Led by...
