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Credit: Maffetone, Rivera-Dominguez and Laursen. Does your waist measure more than half your height? If so, you may be part of the global overfat pandemic....

Credit: © Humberto Yamaguti SAN FRANCISCO (July 24, 2017) -- A team of researchers -- including Dr. Lauren Esposito, Curator of Arachnology at the California...

Credit: Kobe University Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common virus found worldwide. When CMV infects fetuses, it can cause serious complications such as hearing difficulties...

Credit: (© Evgeny V. Yan/FSU Jena) (Jena, Germany) He's Australian, around half a centimetre long, fairly nondescript, 300 million years old, and he's currently causing...

Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University and the University of Chemistry and Technology (Prague, Czech Republic) have created novel chemical sensors for...

The New Phytologist Trust, in partnership with John Wiley & Sons, is announcing the launch of a new crossdisciplinary Open Access journal: Plants, People, Planet,...

Credit: Jonathan Lawson The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine has selected Babraham Institute group leader, Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri, to receive a Lister Institute Research Prize...

Today investigators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Children's Oncology Group (COG) announced the opening of enrollment for a unique precision medicine clinical...

Credit: © Chris Smart, NYSAES, Geneva NY A missing link in the complex molecular pathway by which plants resist pathogens has been identified by an...

Climate change campaigns that focus on correcting public beliefs about scientific consensus are likely to backfire and undermine policy efforts, according to an expert commentary...

PHILADELPHIA - Offering $100 to patients eligible for a preventive colonoscopy screening more than doubled the rate of screening when compared to a simple emailed...

Bottom Line: In preclinical studies, tumors that consitutively expressed the protein indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO1) responded to the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor celecoxib (Celebrex) and had..

(Earlham Institute) A four-year investment from RCUK's Global Challenges Research Fund is set to stimulate the bioeconomy by increasing knowledge of Colombia's greatest treasure: its...

A high-fat diet not only creates health problems for expectant mothers, but new research in an animal model suggests it alters the development of the...

At a glance: New study explains previously mysterious characteristics of ribosomes, the protein production factories of the cell. Researchers mathematically demonstrate that ribosomes are precisely...