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Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University What could cancer cells and drug-resistant bacteria possibly have in common with Stone Age settlers of the Americas? They're all migratory,...

Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory PULLMAN, Wash.–Jean-Sabin McEwen knocks out a web search for "North Dakota," "night sky" and "flaring," and quickly finds a picture from...

Credit: Martha Nelson-Flower An African desert-dwelling male bird favours his biological sons and alienates his stepsons, suggests research published today in Biological Letters. "Nepotism has...

Exercise, particularly high-impact activity, builds stronger bones in children, even for those who carry genetic variants that predispose them to bone weakness, according to new...

The brain connects sensory information from the environment to our subjective experiences, resulting in our perceptions, emotions, and memories. However, our brains need to disconnect...

IMAGE: Thankam Thyvalikakath is an associate professor and director of the Dental Informatics Core of the Indiana University School of Dentistry and a Regenstrief Institute...

Credit: Clemmons Lab, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC – People with diabetes are at high risk of developing heart disease. Despite knowing this,...

A gene called Prkci can point cells in the right direction, according to a new study in Developmental Biology. In the study, USC Stem Cell...

New research indicates that fish may adapt their behaviour to defend against parasite infection. The findings are published in the Journal of Zoology. When investigators...

Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE — A team of investigators from the University of Kansas currently is stationed at Antarctica's Shackleton Glacier to collect the...

Credit: University of Utah Health Inherited genetic mutations can rob up to 7 percent of the population of their smile. Several genes are important for...

Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In medical diagnostics, the importance of genetic code assays is growing day by day and modern molecular biology could not...

Credit: Faruck Morcos/University of Texas at Dallas Protein pairs that control stimulus response in bacteria maintain a sensitive balance between interaction specificity and promiscuity, according...

Credit: OIST When looking at bacteria, you typically see also flagella: long hairs that protrudes from the bacteria's body. The key function of the flagella...

The concentration of the euphoriant THC in cannabis has tripled in the space of twenty years. The reason may be a systematic processing of the...