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We all know that when it rains, plants grow. When it doesn't, they don't. However, new research led by plant scientists at Michigan State University...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2016 -- The origins of life on Earth are still shrouded in mystery. One compelling possibility is...

Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have conducted the first study of its kind, using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to look at brain...

Credit: James Smith @ British Antarctic Survey Reporting this week (Wednesday Nov. 23) in the journal Nature an international team led by British Antarctic Survey...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon in sheets just one atom in thick, has been the subject of widespread research, in large...

Check out these newsworthy studies from the November 23, 2016, issue of JNeurosci. Media interested in obtaining the full text of the studies should contact...

Credit: Charles LeDuc/Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (November 23, 2016)--Columbia University has awarded the 2016 Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes...

Research is underway at Rochester Institute of Technology that will give scientists a better understanding of the vitreous humor, or gel, that fills the eye...

MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Carbone Cancer Center have better defined a pro-growth signaling...

Credit: Ole Wendroth. Soil isn't one size fits all. It may look the same under your feet - but under a microscope, that's a different...

Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA/MODIS Rapid Response Team Satellites are keeping track of late-season Tropical Storm Otto as it threatens Central America. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured...

Since 1980, the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, has nearly tripled, and obesity related liver disease is one of...

A naturally occurring predatory bacterium is able to work with the immune system to clear multi-drug resistant Shigella infections in zebrafish, according to a study...

Credit: Bryce Richter/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- In our guts, and in the guts of all animals, resides a robust ecosystem of microbes known as the...

Beneficiaries of Medicare who develop cancer and don't have supplemental health insurance incur out-of-pocket expenditures for their treatments averaging one-quarter of their income with some...