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Obese mice are much more likely than lean mice to overeat in the presence of environmental cues, a behavior that could be related to changes...

ATLANTA–Andrew Gewirtz, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a four-year, $1.8-million federal grant to study how changes...

LSU researchers Jeremy M. Brown and Eric N. Rittmeyer, in collaboration with colleagues at Florida State University, are shedding light on how often and where...

Credit: Courtesy Kristen Tummeltshammer PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Just six months into the world, babies already have the capacity to learn, remember and use contextual cues...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – In a study of children with brain shunts at Children's of Alabama, a University of Alabama at Birmingham investigational biomarker outperformed the...

There's an ancient group of algae that evolved in the world's oceans before our backboned ancestors crawled onto land. They are so numerous that their...

Credit: Hokkaido University Large, physically strong Masu salmon disperse farther when infected with parasites, potentially escaping from further infections at the contaminated site but ironically...

Credit: UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences Touch is the first of the five senses to develop, yet scientists know far less about the...

Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Michael Pulsipher, MD, of the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles has been awarded...

Publication in Genes & Development: researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB develop new techniques to assess the fate of stem cells in vivo....

HANOVER, N.H. – Dartmouth College scientists have discovered that marine microalgae can completely replace the wild fish oil currently used to feed tilapia, the second...

RICHLAND, Wash. – Microbes in soil – organisms that exert enormous influence over our planet's carbon cycle – may not be as adaptable to climate...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – One goal in neurobiology is to understand how the flow of electrical signals through brain circuits gives rise to perception,...

London, UK, May 23, 2016 – The spread of yellow fever (YF) is a global health threat. In response to current outbreaks in Angola, other...

Credit: The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (November 2017)–Mango fruits play host to some economically damaging fungal diseases, especially during ripening and storage; but...