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UC Santa Barbara's Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) has received its sixth consecutive multimillion-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund six years of...

URBANA, Ill. - For most preschool-age children, picky eating is just a normal part of growing up. But for others, behaviors such as insisting on...

Credit: Murthy/Conboy/Nature Biomedical Engineering Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology inside cells and h..

In an article in the latest issue of Plos Pathogens, INRS professor Simona Stäger and her team show how the parasite Leishmania donovani uses a...

Credit: Georgia Tech As China struggles to find ways to remedy the noxious haze that lingers over Beijing and other cities in the winter, researchers...

Co-prescription of the anticonvulsant gabapentin is associated with an increased risk of opioid-related death in people who are prescribed opioid painkillers, according to a new...

Credit: Authors: Sankar Chatterjee, Christopher R. Scotese, and Sunil Bajpai and The Geological Society of America Boulder, Colo., USA: The fossil history of animal life...

EUGENE, Ore. -- Oct. 3, 2017 -- In a special experiment, zebrafish with defective immune systems swam and dined with counterparts with normal immune systems....

Credit: Nikita Taparia, University of Washington WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 3, 2017 -- About one quarter of the world's population suffers from anemia, a disease caused...

New Orleans, LA - LSU Health New Orleans has been awarded a $1.85 million grant over five years by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse...

Programming a molecular biology experiment can be similar to playing Sudoku; both are simple if you're working with only a few molecules or a small...

Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - One in three American adults suffers from high blood pressure, or hypertension. The disease can be passed down...

MADISON, Wisconsin -- Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Florida will use a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of...

Credit: Michael Todd, Vanderbilt University In a sharp and pointy world, wound healing is a critical and marvelous process. Despite a tremendous amount of scientific...

Credit: Binbin Li DURHAM, N.C. -- Increased livestock grazing in China's Wanglang National Nature Preserve has damaged one third of all giant panda habitat in...