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Credit: Olson Lab/Rice University There's at least one person in the world for whom smoking has a beneficial effect, and it took an international collaboration...

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- Scientists have known for decades that drastically restricting certain nutrients without causing malnutrition prolongs health and lifespan...

The distribution of normal matter precisely determines gravitational acceleration in all common types of galaxies, a team led by Case Western Reserve University researchers reports....

Credit: A. Wilson; Brian W.J. Mahy, BSc, MA, PhD, ScD, DSc, USCDCP A mutation that impacts changes in the shape of an essential viral protein...

Credit: Wilson et al. (2017) An immune system proteinase called granzyme A appears to promote arthritic inflammation in mice infected with chikungunya virus, scientists report...

Aliphatic organic compounds - carbon-based building blocks that may have a role in the chemistry that creates life - have been detected for the first...

Credit: Bruce D. Taubert Animals that feed almost solely on nectar, which doesn't produce protective antioxidants, are still able to avoid experiencing oxidative damage to...

An international team of scientists using the latest imaging techniques have revealed how bacterial division proteins build a partition wall across the cell, one molecule...

Scientists at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have mapped a vast spider web of interactions between proteins in lung cancer cells, as part of...

Credit: Courtney Couch Seagrass meadows reduce bacteria pathogenic to humans and marine life by up to 50%, a new study shows. What's more, corals located...

Credit: University of Warwick Foot-and-mouth epidemics could be controlled quickly and effectively by rapidly establishing how many animals can be vaccinated per day of an...

Credit: Pixabay URBANA, Ill. - More no-till farmers are using cover crops to conserve soil and suppress weeds, but many vegetable producers are reluctant to...

ANN ARBOR--A University of Michigan biologist combined the techniques of "resurrection ecology" with the study of dated lake sediments to examine evolutionary responses to heavy-metal...

Credit: Creative Commons BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study reported Feb. 17 in the journal Science led by researchers at Indiana University and Harvard University is...

Credit: Dae Seok Eom, David Parichy Scientists at the University of Washington have discovered that a common type of cell in the vertebrate immune system...