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Credit: Image by IBP Photosynthesis is a biological process mediating the conversion of solar energy into chemical energy. The so-called oxygenic photosynthesis, performed by plants,...

Credit: Image by IBP The intestine contains an extensive and diverse microbial flora, including potential pathogens and dietary antigens that needs to be tolerated. Dysregulation...

Credit: Maekawa N. et al., Scientific Reports, Aug. 21, 2017 Similar to our aging society, dogs live longer than before and an increasing number of...

Credit: Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra/UC Davis The "jumping genes" of maize have finally been mapped by an international team led by researchers at the University of California,...

Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 24, 2017--Biological "detectives" are tracking down biothreats such as the bacteria that causes tularemia ("rabbit fever"),...

Bottom Line: Scientists have found distinctive portions of genetic material--known as lncRNAs--that help sperm develop. Male mice lacking a particular lncRNA have low sperm count,...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Prehensile Technologies, a company developing robotic assistive technology devices, is developing RoboTable, a robotic over-the-bed table, to help veterans and others...

Removing a single gene from the brains of mice and zebrafish causes these animals to become more anxious than normal. Researchers from University of Utah...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The bacterial communities that live inside everyone are quite similar and stable when times are good, but when stress enters the equation,...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Biomedical engineering researchers will attack two banes of cardiovascular disease -- heart failure after heart attacks and the scourge of...

Members of the Faculty of Biology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have proved that under Nordic conditions wastewaters could be treated with the help...

Lynden, WA - August 24, 2017 - Initial findings from several studies - including both human subjects and animals - on the potential health benefits...

Credit: Ian Bell New York - August 23, 2017 - An international team of scientists investigating the effects of six planned or potential Andean dams...

Credit: Carroll lab/Boston Children's Hospital A newly-unveiled discovery, which has been four years in the making, has the potential to change the way we look...

Credit: Graphic by Jason Drees for the Biodesign institute According to Paul Coleman, an Alzheimer's researcher at the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center (NDRC), one...