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An unexpected discovery has given scientists a greater understanding of an important methane-producing enzyme. A team of researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for...

Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Research Institute September 20, 2017 (Grand Rapids, Michigan)--Van Andel Research Institute scientist Scott Rothbart, Ph.D., has been awarded a five-year,...

Credit: Benjamin Lee Forest fires in Southeast Asia during the El Niño droughts of 2015 caused considerable disruption to the biodiversity of the region due...

Credit: Source: Rodolfo Nogueira The best known sauropod dinosaurs were huge herbivorous creatures, whose brain structures were markedly different from those of their evolutionary predecessors,...

Credit: PS Rao. Domesticating plants to grow as crops can turn out to be a double-edged scythe. On one hand, selecting specific desirable traits, such...

A study recently published in the online version of the European Journal of Nutrition has found that people who include nuts in their diet are...

Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Antibodies are a powerful weapon system in defending our body against invaders such as bacteria and viruses. Each antibody consists...

Credit: NIBB One of the central questions in biology is how a cell specifies its size. Because size distribution often shows a characteristically skewed pattern...

Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Scientists at ITbM, Nagoya University have synthesized a new bioactive small molecule that has the ability to increase stomata numbers on...

Credit: Kristopher Lappin Scientists say that a large, now extinct, frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar would have been...

A new method that inexpensively monitors the safe storage of industrial greenhouse gas emissions is to be used by a leading research project. The test...

Credit: Professor Sumio Ohtsuki Biopharmaceuticals, medium- and high-molecular weight biologically active macromolecules, are not easily absorbed by the small intestine, the main organ responsible ..

Later leaf emergence, earlier leaf loss: A new study of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich shows that the average vegetation periods of trees and shrubs in...

DNA in lake sediment forms a natural archive displaying when various fish species colonized lakes after the glacial period. This according to researchers at the...

Credit: Andrius Pasukonis/Eva Ringler Parental care is widespread in the animal kingdom. Poison frogs are also known to be dedicated parents. They pick up their...