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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A health care provider's beliefs about a particular treatment may have a strong influence on the patient's outcome, according to a new...

Biologists at Lund University, together with their colleagues from Portugal and the UK, have now proven that the endangered São Tomé grosbeak is the world's...

Credit: Xiaowei Hong After the mid-1990s, the global surface temperature presents a significant warming trend. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the global mean surface...

A new study shows that modern domestic cats are ultimately derived from the African wildcat, which was domesticated in two centers -- Egypt and the...

This might considerably speed up crystal growth that is of major importance in a number of materials and applications. The liquid state of the building...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 21, 2017--A new study of children up to 2 years of age showed that those...

GALVESTON, Texas - Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have shed light on how the developing brain ensures that connections between...

Scientists studying a mystery link between the dangerous pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia and an increased risk of heart disease in later life for both mother and...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and EVRY, France, June 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRPT), a U.S. commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and...

Credit: Photo: Gunnar Bartsch Forager honeybees have a demanding job: Searching for nectar, honeydew and pollen, they permanently commute between beehive and flower meadow. Their...

Credit: Tingying Peng / TUM/HMGU Today, tracking the development of individual cells and spotting the associated factors under the microscope is nothing unusual. However, impairments...

Research by Dr Nicholas Newton-Fisher from the University of Kent has found chimpanzees modify their interactions with other chimpanzees if higher ranking members of their...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A new drug shows promise in its ability to target one of the most common and sinister mutations of acute...

Credit: Adrià López-Baucells A new study from the University of Helsinki investigates knowledge gaps among the largely unknown, but greatly threatened, group of island-restricted bats,...

When it comes to testing for cancer, environmental pollution and food contaminants, traditional sensors can help. The challenges are that they often are bulky, expensive,...