Credit: Mortensen Lab, Penn State Vast swaths of Pennsylvania forests were clear-cut circa 1900 and regrowth has largely been from local native plant communities, but...
Credit: The Biodesign Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 20, 2017) - Communities of cells communicate to coordinate their actions, but how do they coordinate with...
Credit: Scientific Reports In 2014, a team of researchers led by a paleobiologist from the University of Missouri found that clams from the Holocene Epoch...
Credit: Yolanda Sanchez LEBANON, N.H. - Virtually all cancer treatments used today also damage normal cells, causing the toxic side effects associated with cancer treatment....
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 20, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced 13 grants totaling $4.6...
Credit: Marco Gallio, Northwestern EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University neuroscientists now can visualize how fruit flies sense and process humidity and temperature together through a...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--July 20, 2017--Lorenz P. Studer, MD, was announced today as the winner of the 2017 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize by the Gladstone Institutes....
When gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, they sparked a resurgence of aspen trees. Young aspens had been devastated and all but disappeared,...
The Aedes aegypti mosquito may be tiny but it can wreak major havoc on human health, spreading diseases such as Zika, dengue fever and yellow...
More than 8 billion metric tons. That's the amount of plastic humans have created since the large-scale production of synthetic materials began in the early...
Credit: Mortensen Lab, Penn State Vast swaths of Pennsylvania forests were clear-cut circa 1900 and regrowth has largely been from local native plant communities, but...
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Irregular heartbeat -- or arrhythmia -- can have sudden and often fatal consequences. A biomedical engineering team at Washington...
Credit: Northern Illinois University Summer is abloom at Nachusa Grasslands, where the warmth of July is igniting an explosion of color. Purple coneflowers point to...
Credit: (Picture: UZH) Researchers at the University of Zurich have shown for the first time that hematopoietic stem cells detect infectious agents themselves and begin...
Credit: Photo credit Margaret Whitney Mercury is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant that affects the health of birds and other wild animals. Two varieties of songbird--zebra...
