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Many research groups have recently explored human adaptation and successfully identified candidate genes to high altitude living among three major far-flung global populations: Tibetans, Ethiopians...

(Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) How did Neanderthals grow? Does modern man develop in the same way as Homo neanderthalensis did? How does the size...

Credit: © F. Chen Exceptionally preserved trilobite fossils from China, dating back to more than 500 million years ago, have revealed new insights into the...

Credit: BES Photo Archive (Millbrook, NY) Through a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) is partnering with Baltimore...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Chronic tissue inflammation resulting from obesity is an underlying cause of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. But the mechanism...

Credit: VIIBRE, Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University researchers has received a two-year, $2-million federal grant to develop an "organ-on-chip" model for two...

Credit: Jesse Miller/UC Davis Woody vegetation, such as trees and shrubs, has increased dramatically in Ozark grasslands over the past 75 years, according to a...

ANN ARBOR--Inspired by the Labyrinth of Greek mythology, a new chip etched with fluid channels sends blood samples through a hydrodynamic maze to separate out...

Credit: Jessica C. Thompson/Emory University The first large-scale study of ancient human DNA from sub-Saharan Africa opens a long-awaited window into the identity of prehistoric...

Credit: Huang Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - In a major step forward in research, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today publish...

New insights into how our cells store and manage DNA during cell division could help point towards the causes of a rare developmental condition. The...

Credit: University of Bristol Researchers at the University of Bristol have been taking a close-up look at the biting mouthparts of the African tsetse fly...

Credit: KU News Service LAWRENCE -- The search for biology on neighbor planet Mars won't play out like a Hollywood movie starring little green men....

Making a bold commitment to develop groundbreaking approaches for treating brain diseases and injuries, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has assembled a...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapy has been shown to be very effective in recurrent and metastatic head and neck cancer but only...