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Annapolis, MD; July 5, 2017--A new species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease needs the same amount of time for transmission after a tick bite...

Credit: Lara Barrio. Researchers working in the Development and Growth Control Lab at IRB Barcelona reveal that the Dpp gene (BMP in humans) plays a...

(IOS Press) Stereo vision allows individuals to perceive depth differences in their surroundings. Important to pedestrians and drivers, for example, depth perception plays a key...

WASHINGTON, DC - July 5, 2017 - Pregnant women with a previous history of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection maintain active antibodies against...

Philadelphia, PA, July 5, 2017 - People with Tourette's disorder or chronic tic disorder are over four times more likely to die by suicide than...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A novel method to improve the high-yield, high-purity, high-activity purification of complex proteins by 10- to 500-fold has been developed...

Credit: CNIC Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have discovered that the transcriptional regulator CTCF plays an essential role in...

Listening to something while looking in a different direction can slow down reaction times while the brain works harder to suppress distractions, finds a new...

Credit: UBC Okanagan As Canada's vast boreal and tundra ecosystems experience dramatic warming due to climate change, trees are rapidly spreading north. New research from...

The evolution of plants has been punctuated by major innovations, none more striking among living plants than the flower. Flowering plants account for the vast...

Credit: Hugh McGregor A study of burrowing bettongs in the Australian desert has shown for the first time that exposing threatened native animals to small...

(Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University) The International ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Symposium 2017 will be held on Aug. 3-4, 2017, at Nagoya University,...

Credit: Guotian Li and Rashmi Jain/Berkeley Lab Rice is a staple food for over half of the world's population and a model for studies of...

New research into Rett syndrome therapeutics suggests that a small molecule already reported to improve respiratory problems associated with the disease may also improve spatial...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have reached important milestones in their quest to engineer replacement tissue in the lab...