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Credit: Matthew Mann/ University of Rochester Amid the incredible diversity of living things on our planet, there is a common theme. Organisms need to acquire...

It's a tiny marine invertebrate, no more than 3 millimeters in size. But closely related to humans, Botryllus schlosseri might hold the key to new...

The music from the movie "Jaws" is a sound that many people have learned to associate with a fear of sharks. Just hearing the music...

Credit: JR Hernandez, UTEP Communications A pair of scientists at The University of Texas at El Paso is one step closer to developing the first...

Credit: Jennifer Bagwell, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke researchers have discovered a unique repair mechanism in the developing backbone of zebrafish that could give...

Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists used human pluripotent stem cells to generate human embryonic colons in a laboratory that function much like natural human...

Credit: Dr Marta I. Oliveira, INL, Portugal Tiny nanoparticles offer significant potential in detecting and treating disease - new review Exosomes - tiny biological nanoparticles...

Earth Observation technology can map human settlements to predict where monkey populations have declined through hunting 'High-throughput DNA sequencing' can tell which species live in...

Credit: Diego Javier Jiménez Microbes are widely used to break down plant biomass into sugars, which can be used as sustainable building blocks for novel...

Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic researchers have shown for the first time how a class of advanced prostate cancer drugs are processed in the body and how...

Credit: Schacher Lab/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (June 22, 2017) -- Different types of memories stored in the same neuron of the marine...

Credit: 2017 Kazushige Touhara. A study by a group of Japanese scientists showed how a male pheromone in mice enhances sexual behaviors in females--and how...

Credit: Kesari Lab/Brown Universtiy PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Sea sponges known as Venus' flower baskets remain fixed to the sea floor with nothing more than an...

Credit: The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (June 2017)--Dr. R. James (Jim) Cook, a retired research plant pathologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research...

Credit: Todd Castoe Evolution takes eons, but it leaves marks on the genomes of organisms that can be detected with DNA sequencing and analysis. As...