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TORONTO, CANADA – September 13, 2016: Toronto will be represented in the Climate-KIC Climathon, a global 24-hour climate change challenge organised simultaneously in major cities...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 8, 2017-Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate dopaminergic neurons in the laboratory from induced...

Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan – Dry scaly skin, blistering, rashes. Many people will experience some kind of skin problem at some time in their...

Credit: Professor Scott Armbruster Nectar, the high-energy 'honey' produced by flowers, might be a brilliant distraction technique to help protect a flower's reproductive parts, accord..

ANN ARBOR–New research from a large international team of scientists offers a more complete picture of the genes responsible for type 2 diabetes, demonstrating that...

Scientists at Rutgers and Stanford universities have created a new technology that could someday help treat Parkinson's disease and other devastating brain-related conditions that affect...

Credit: David Slipher, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences Tom Lehrer sang about poisoning them, but those pigeons in the park might be a good...

Credit: Leuthardt lab Stroke patients who learned to use their minds to open and close a device fitted over their paralyzed hands gained some control...

Credit: UTA Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are focusing their attention on pain management in older adults, a segment of the population...

Simon Fraser University professor Mark Winston's prolific book on his lifetime as a world-leading bee expert–Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive–has won the prestigious 2015...

Credit: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry A new analysis has found that although the risk of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Arctic environment is low...

Credit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology Hairless dog breeds differ from other dogs not only by lacking a coat, but also in the number and nature...

While Climate change steadily takes its toll, promising to raise temperatures around the world by at least 1.5 °C within the next 100 years, organisms...

Credit: Pontus Nordenfelt It's a known fact that cells can move around the body, but how they do it has been unknown – until now....

Stem cells are specialized undifferentiated cells that can divide and have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during...