Credit: UA College of Medicine – Phoenix Amelia Gallitano, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, has received...
A protein known for helping cells withstand stress may also act as a switch that triggers free-swimming Schistosoma larvae to begin penetrating the skin and...
IMAGE: This image shows tissue infected by Listeria (bacteria appear in red). Credit: YH Tsai, M Lecuit, © Institut Pasteur. This news release is available...
LA JOLLA–Scientists have, for the first time, characterized the molecular markers that make the brain’s front lines of immune defense–cells called microglia–unique. In the process,...
Credit: Nicole Hoff Survivors of the first known Ebola outbreak, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, may be key to...
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Migrating birds complete long non-stop flights of many hours for songbirds and days for some shorebirds to reach breeding...
Credit: Greenpeace DURHAM, N.C. — China's plan to ramp up production of new chemicals and synthetic fuels made from coal could derail recent efforts to...
New research has resolved a mystery over why female fiddler crabs visit and leave many males during mating season, and found the females aren't just...
Credit: Feargus Cooney Young mongooses may conceal their identity — even from their own parents — to survive. Killing of pups is common in mongoose...
Credit: Project Nightjar Nesting birds time their escape from an approaching predator depending on how well camouflaged their eggs and their own bodies are, researchers...
IMAGE: This image shows the motion and microtubule arrangement of node cilia in the mouse embryo. Credit: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and Osaka...
IMAGE: Thie is Clostridium difficile, or C. diff.. Credit: Renee Fox New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Michigan finds that...
Credit: Photo: PATH/Gabe Bienczycki PATH applauds Indian vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech for receiving prequalification from the World Health Organization (WHO) for their oral rotavirus vaccine,...
IMAGE: Brain cells from a fruit fly model of Alzheimer's disease were compared to healthy brain cells to show a type of dysfunction in the...
Credit: Stewart Macdonald The "blood nuking" capabilities of adult brown snake venom only come about after an amazing transformation. New research led by University of...
