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Credit: J. R. Hoyt Bat populations in some places in North America appear to have developed resistance to the deadly fungal disease known as white-nose...

Credit: Gonçalo M. Rosa A new strain of ranavirus is currently causing mass mortality in several species of amphibian in the Serra da Estrela, the...

Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Children in need of an organ transplant often wait longer than...

Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school. The organism is often used...

Credit: The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong is home to a dazzling diversity of over 250 butterfly species, many of which can be found...

Credit: Etienne Laliberté MONTREAL, Jan. 12, 2017 – Some of the Earth's ecosystems host a disproportionately high number of plant species, and infertile shrublands in...

Credit: Pavel Krasnov A group of scientists from the Siberian Federal University (SFU, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and the Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (NIIC, Novosibirsk, Russia)...

Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Peter Barta St. Jude Children's Research Hospital immunologists have identified the protein trigger in the body's quick-reaction innate...

For the first time, abnormal brain development following a Zika infection during pregnancy has been documented experimentally in the offspring of a non-human primate. The...

Credit: J.R. Hernandez/UTEP Communications A research team at The University of Texas at El Paso is one step closer to developing an effective human vaccine...

Credit: F. Ramírez, I. Afán, L. S. Davis and A. Chiaradia A new study aimed at identifying areas of highest conservation priority in the world's...

Credit: Jeffrey Gordon: (c) James Byard – Washington University Antonio Lanzavecchia: (c) Alessandro Crinari Michel Nussenzweig: (c) Mario Morgado – The Rockfeller University François Leulier:...

Credit: (Purdue University image courtesy of Kuhn and Rossmann research groups) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers at Purdue University have determined the high-resolution structure of...

Credit: Washington University School of Medicine The overuse of antibiotics has left some doctors questioning whether to give such drugs to children diagnosed with uncomplicated...

Credit: Courtesy: Kelvinsong On Nov. 25, 1901, a 51-year-old woman is admitted to a hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, displaying a bizarre constellation of symptoms. Her...