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We humans aren't the only creatures drawn by the smell of a good meal. Fruit fly larvae, it turns out, are equally susceptible to food...

Soil health is a key to growing food in a sustainable manner. The 4R nutrient stewardship program is part of that. 4R is an agricultural...

Credit: Zhe Zhu While Zika virus causes devastating damage to the brains of developing fetuses, it one day may be an effective treatment for glioblastoma,...

Credit: Joseph Wilson, Utah State University Many people have heard bee populations are declining due to such threats as colony collapse disorder, pesticides and habitat...

(Georgia Institute of Technology) How proteins evolved billions of years ago, when Earth was devoid of life, has stumped many a scientist. A little do-si-do...

Credit: Press-office SibFU According to the head of the works Tatiana Volova, Professor of SibFU and the Head of Laboratory in the Institute of Biophysics...

The cells of the innate immune system use a signaling pathway comprising STING (Stimulator of interferon genes) to detect DNA from invading viruses and fight...

ANN ARBOR--Sometimes it pays to be unpredictable. A new study shows that when bipedal desert rodents called jerboas are being chased, sudden changes in direction,...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, Northeastern University Professor Jennifer Bowen and University of Rhode Island Professor Laura Meyerson reveal that a native type...

Insects have much better vision and can see in far greater detail than previously thought, a new study from the University of Sheffield has revealed....

The presence of the bacterium Kingella kingae in children's throats was strongly linked to bone and joint infection with the same bacterium, according to new...

1. Re-analysis of evidence suggests that PSA screening significantly reduces the risk for death from prostate cancer Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M16-2586 Editorial: http://an..

Johns Hopkins scientists say they have developed a blood test that spots tumor-specific DNA and protein biomarkers for early-stage pancreatic cancer. The combined "liquid biopsy"...

LUGANO-MADRID, 04 September, 2017 - European women with ovarian cancer can safely stick to the standard three-week dosing schedule for paclitaxel rather than boosting up...

Scientists are honing in on a potential treatment for osteoporosis, after performing the largest ever genetic study of the common age-related bone-thinning disease. Researchers from...