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Credit: USDA-ARS URBANA, Ill. - Each spring, tiny roundworms hatch and wriggle over to the nearest soybean root to feed. Before farmers are even aware...

Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the end of Tropical Cyclone 8P as it was being sheared apart by strong vertical...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Discovery of a dual role played by the enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase 1 (PGK1) may indicate a new therapeutic target for...

February 23, 2017 (Cambridge, MA) -- Proteins do most of the work inside the human body, supporting the structure, function, regulation, and repair of organs,...

Kevin Watanabe-Smith, Ph.D., likens cell mutations to typos in text messages. "Mutations are part of life. They are mistakes in a gene like typos in...

(Boston)--Maunil Bhatt, MD, a post graduate resident in the Department of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center (BMC), was recently...

Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University A research team from the United States and Canada has developed and successfully tested new computational software that determines whether...

Credit: Felix Rey, Pasteur Institute Sexual reproduction and viral infections actually have a lot in common. According to new research, both processes rely on a...

Credit: Kate Broadley and Clayton Lamb EDMONTON (Under embargo until Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 10 a.m. MST)--In the middle of Alberta's boreal forest, a...

Credit: KU Leuven - Alex van Vliet PERK is known to detect protein folding errors in the cell. Researchers at the Laboratory of Cell Death...

Credit: NOAA In movies and TV shows, dolphins are often portrayed as heroes who save humans through remarkable feats of strength and tenacity. Now dolphins...

Credit: Cai et al., Astrophysical Journal (Figure 2) Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant universe, with no obvious source...

Credit: Jeffrey Schifman/Columbia Engineering Professor Julia Hirschberg has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional distinctions awarded to...

Credit: Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk In just two years' time, a team of NASA engineers accomplished what some thought impossible: the group created a smaller, more...

Credit: UC Creative Services/Andrew Higley The buzzword in drone research is autonomous -- having the unmanned aerial vehicle do most or all of its own...