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One of the key questions in stem cell and cancer biology is to understand the cellular hierarchy governing tissue development and maintenance and the cancer...

A recent paper published in Age & Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, finds that current smoking in older people increases the...

Credit: NASA/SOHO It's not a bird or a plane but it might be a solar storm. We like to think of astronauts as our super...

Key Takeaways: A large long-term study found that breast cancer risk may be higher for women who live in areas with high levels of outdoor...

Credit: Photo by Victor Garcia-Zepeda SANTA CRUZ, CA - August 17 , 2017 - UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Office of Diversity scholar and BD2K...

Credit: University of Queensland Researchers say their new knowledge on the inner workings of a bacterium has important implications for Australia's billion dollar cheese industry....

Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Life as a fruit fly seems pretty simple: Hatch, grow, eat some fruit, find a mate, produce...

Converting waste into resources, substituting toxic raw materials for healthy inputs, migrating from harmful to sustainable production processes. These are some of the guidelines for...

Credit: HOT Program, UHM SOEST Microbes dominate the planet, especially the ocean, and help support the entire marine food web. In a recent report published...

Credit: Ellen Hutti, Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - Thanks to a recent $480,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Kasey Fowler-Finn, Ph.D., assistant...

Credit: Photo credit: Mark Horton The earliest introduction of domestic chickens and black rats from Asia to the east coast of Africa came via maritime...

Credit: Leo Popovich Bacteria have to watch out for amoeba. Hungry amoebae hunt them: they catch them with their pseudopodia and then absorb and digest...

A mutation that helps make cells immortal is critical to the development of a tumor, but new research at the University of California, Berkeley suggests...

Credit: Suely Nagahashi Marie and Thais Galatro, University of São Paulo Medical School The results of a new research showed that many of the genes...

Credit: NIEHS A protein called COUP-TFII determines whether a mouse embryo develops a male reproductive tract, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health...